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Standing Custard

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Standing Custard

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Make custard according to your preferred recipe.

  2. While the custard is hot, fold in the well-beaten egg whites.

  3. Line a mold with thin muslin.

  4. Pour the custard mixture into the mold.

  5. Steam the mold for 20 minutes.

  6. Let it cool completely before serving, with or without preserves.

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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