Steamed Custard
Public Domain Recipes

Steamed Custard

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 cup milk
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 3 tablespoon sugar
  • 1/4 teaspoon lemon extract
  • 1/8 teaspoon grated nutmeg

Directions

  1. Beat the eggs, add the sugar, salt, vanilla, and lemon extract.
  2. Mix thoroughly.
  3. Butter four custard cups.
  4. Fill a pan four inches deep with hot (not boiling) water.
  5. Set the cups in the pan and place in a moderately slow oven for thirty-five or forty minutes (or until a knife inserted in the custard comes out clean).
  6. Serve cold with maple syrup poured over it.

Other Information

Author: Louise Bennett Weaver, Helen Cowles LeCron

Source: A Thousand Ways To Please a Husband (1917-01-01)

Category: Dessert

Ingredients: milk, salt, egg, vanilla extract, sugar, lemon extract, nutmeg

Equipment: measuring cups, measuring spoons, egg beater, stove

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