Caramel Cup Custard
Ingredients
Directions
In a saucepan, caramelize 1 cup of sugar until golden brown.
Add 1 cup of boiling water to the caramel and cook until the syrup thickens to the consistency of maple syrup.
Pour 1 tablespoon of the caramel syrup into the bottom of each custard cup.
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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