Name: Custard Cups
Ingredients: custard mixture; nutmeg

Custard Cups

Ingredients

custard mixture
nutmeg

Directions

Fill custard cups with the custard mixture and cover them.
Place the cups in a Dutch oven with water, ensuring the water does not risk boiling into the cups.
Do not cover the top of the oven.
Boil the water for 10 to 15 minutes.
Check a cup; if the custard has a jelly-like consistency, it is done.
Serve the custards in the cups with the covers on and a teaspoon between each cup.
Grate nutmeg on top when cold.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.