Baked Custard - American Recipe

Baked Custard

🌍 American, American Home Cooking Difficulty: ●○○○○

🍳 Equipment: Bowl, Dover beater, Baking-cups or dish, Large pan

Classic American baked custard — simple, satisfying home baking.

Ingredients

• 3 eggs
• ¼ cup sugar
• 2 cups milk
• ¼ teaspoon spice
• or
• ½ teaspoon vanilla

Method

1. Break — the eggs in a bowl and beat them with a dover beater.
2. Add — the sugar and flavoring, and mix together.
3. Stir — in the milk.
4. Pour — the mixture into custard-cups or a baking-dish, set the cups or dish in a large pan half filled with water, and put this pan into a slow oven.
5. Bake — slowly until the custard is thick and will not stick to the blade of a knife thrust into the centre.
6. Lift — the cups or baking-dish from the pan of water, and set in a cool place.

Tags: milk, egg, sugar · Source: The Plain Sailing Cook Book (1922)

Notes

Serve plain, with cream, or with Caramel Sauce (page 121).

Cross-References

• See (page 121)