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Plain Boiled Custard and Float

From Fruit recipes, 1907

Serves 2

Custard may be baked in cups or one dish in an outer vessel of water.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

Ingredients

  • each quart of milk
  • four or five eggs
  • three tablespoons of sugar
  • a tablespoon of sugar

Method

  1. Beat the sugar with the yolks of the eggs before adding the milk.

  2. Whip the whites separately with sugar for meringue or mix into the custard.

  3. Cook just under boiling point.

Nutrition per serving

532Calories
29 gProtein
48 gCarbs
25 gFat

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Fruit recipes (1907) by Berry, Riley Maria Fletcher Mrs., page 9. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PLAIN BOILED CUSTARD AND FLOAT To each quart of milk allow four or five eggs and three tablespoons of sugar, beating the sugar with the yolks of the eggs before adding the milk. The whites may be whipped separately with a tablespoon of sugar

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