Name: Caramel Custard
Ingredients: 2 oz loaf sugar (about ½ cup); 2 tablespoons cold water; Ingredients for custard pudding (as per your recipe)

Caramel Custard

Ingredients

2 oz loaf sugar (about ½ cup)
2 tablespoons cold water
Ingredients for custard pudding (as per your recipe)

Directions

In a saucepan, combine the loaf sugar and cold water.
Boil until the mixture turns a good brown shade.
Pour the caramel into a plain mold, coating the sides and bottom.
Prepare the custard according to your custard pudding recipe.
Strain the custard into the mold.
Cover with greased paper and steam very slowly for 40 minutes.
Carefully turn out the custard from the mold.
Optionally, pour a little more caramel sauce around it before serving.

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.

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