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Ingredients:
2 cups milk
2 eggs or the yolks of 3 eggs
2 tablespoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Preparation:
- Take two cups of milk, two eggs or the yolks of three eggs, two tablespoons of sugar and one-half teaspoon of vanilla. Put the milk on to heat in a double boiler.
- Beat the eggs thoroughly with the sugar; into them pour the hot milk, stirring to prevent lumps. Return all to the double boiler and cook until the custard coats the spoon, but no longer. If the mixture should curdle, set the boiler in a pan of cold water and beat with a wire egg-beater until smooth. When the steam passes off add the vanilla or other flavoring.
- In the winter, when eggs are expensive, the custard may be made with one egg and one heaping teaspoon of cornstarch dissolved in a little cold milk.
- If desired, the whites of the eggs may be beaten separately and added to the custard after it is cold or beaten with sugar into a meringue.