A common CUSTARD

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
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The Experienced English Housekeeper
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Ingredients (5)
Instructions (7)
  1. Take a quart of good cream, set it over a slow fire, with a little cinnamon, and four ounces of sugar.
  2. When it has boiled take it off the fire.
  3. Beat the yolks of eight eggs.
  4. Put to them a spoonful of orange-flower water to prevent the cream from cracking.
  5. Stir them in by degrees as your cream cools.
  6. Put the pan over a very slow fire, stir them carefully one way till it is almost boiling.
  7. Then put it into cups, and serve them up.
Original Text
To make a common CUSTARD. TAKE a quart of good cream, set it over a slow fire, with a little cinnamon, and four ounces of sugar; when it has boiled take it off the fire; beat the yolks of eight eggs, put to them a spoonful of orange-flower water to prevent the cream from cracking, stir them in by degrees as your cream cools, put the pan over a very slow fire, stir them carefully one way till it is al- most boiling, then put it into cups, and serve them up.
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