Name: Baked Custard
Ingredients: nutmeg

Baked Custard

Ingredients

nutmeg

Directions

1 We break the eggs into a bowl.
2 We add the sugar and nutmeg.
3 We beat all together.
4 We measure and add the milk, and turn into the cups or dish to bake.
5 We put into a dripping-pan in the oven with water in the pan.
6 We try with a thin knife-blade, or handle of a teaspoon ; if firm,, it is finished.

By Emily Huntington (1841–1909). 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. See the original page.