Baked Custard Recipe

Ingredients

  • 1 quart of milk
  • 4 eggs
  • pinch of salt
  • sweeten and flavor to taste

Directions

Boil the milk; when cool add the beaten eggs, salt and flavoring. Bake in a pudding dish. Take especial care not to cook too much or it will whey. To test, sink a spoon in the middle: if the eggs are hard and no whey rises to the surface it is done. Serve cold. If wished richer, 5 or 6 eggs may be used to a quart of milk. If wished very nice this custard may be baked in a pudding dish lined with rich puff paste.