This section is from the book "Cooking For Profit", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Cooking for Profit.
1/2 cup sugar - 4 ounces.
Flavoring.
Break the eggs into the sugar and pour in the milk while beating. Grate in a quarter of a nutmeg. Fill five 1/2-pint cups with the custard, wipe off the edges and outside, set in a pan and bake in a slack oven about 20 minutes.
Be careful not to let the cups remain in the oven longer than till the custard is just set in the middle.
Cost of material - milk 8, eggs 13, sugar and flour 3; 24c, or 5 cents per cup or according to price of eggs. These are restaurant cups that sell as pudding at 10c. Common custard cups only half the size.
 
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