This section is from the book "Cookery Reformed: Or The Lady's Assistant", by P. Davey and B. Law.
Beat up eight eggs, and mix them well with a quart of new milk, sweetened with su-gar. Pour the mixture into china cups or basons, or a deep china dish, and set them in boiling water; the water must not come above half way of the cups or basons. When they are enough take them out.
Boil a little mace and cinnamon in a pint of cream; take them out, and beat four eggs into the cream, with only two of the whites •, then add a little sack and rose-water, with sugar, and a little nutmeg; mix them well together, and bake them in china cups.
Take a quarter of a pound of almonds, blanch them, beat them fine, mix them with a pint of cream, and two spoonfuls of rose-water; then beat in the yolks of four eggs, and set them over the fire in a sauce-pan till the mixture becomes thick ; afterwards pour it into china cups.
 
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