Caramel Cup Custard
Ingredients
Directions
Caramelize the sugar in a saucepan until it turns golden brown.
Add the boiling water carefully and cook until the syrup thickens to the consistency of maple syrup.
Pour 1 tablespoon of the caramel into the bottom of custard cups.
Prepare the custard using the same method as the caramel.
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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