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BOILED  CUSTARD
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BOILED CUSTARD

4 ingredients 1 steps internet_archive
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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

286
Calories
16g
Protein
14g
Fat
27g
Carbs
What these numbers assume — 3 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Milk 1 cup (244ml) whole 149
Egg 1 large egg (50g) 78
Peach 1 medium (150g) 59

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • a quart of milk on to boil
  • eight peach leaves
  • six eggs
  • one pitcher to another till it is nearly cold

Directions

1

Put a quart of milk on to boil with half of a vanilla bean or eight peach leaves, when they are in season ; beat the yolks of six eggs and the whites of three ; pour the milk boiling hot upon the eggs, stirring all the time ; then put it in a pitcher, and set the pitcher in a pot of boiling water ; stir it well till it is as thick as good cream ; then pour it from one pitcher to another till it is nearly cold, when put it in cups, and ornament the tops with the whites of eggs and sugar beaten very light, on which put a strawberry, or a rosebud, or jelly.

By Hodgson, Mary, fl. 1855 · Recipe sourced from internet_archive

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