Name: Almond “Custard”
Ingredients: 1 cup of water; 2 tablespns; 1/4 level teaspn

Almond “Custard”

Ingredients

1 cup of water
2 tablespns
1/4 level teaspn

Directions

Rub 2 tablespns. almond butter smooth with 1 cup of water; add 1 or 2 tablespns. sugar and ¼ level teaspn. salt; boil up well; serve warm or cold in cups or glasses with cake, wafers or buns. Flavor with vanilla or with vanilla and almond if desired.

By Evora Bucknum Perkins. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

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.