This section is from the book "Lessons In Cookery", by Thomas K. Chambers. Also available from Amazon: Lessons In Cookery.
Ingredients. - Two eggs. Salt. One gill of beef tea. Time required, about twenty minutes.
To make Savory Custard:
1. Take the yolks of two eggs and the white of one, and put them in a small basin.
2. Add one gill of beef tea and a quarter of a salt-spoonful of salt.
3. Whisk up the eggs and the beef tea well together.
4. Take a small gallipot and butter it inside.
5. Pour the mixture into the gallipot.
6. Take a piece of whity-brown paper and butter it.
7. Put this buttered paper over the top of the gallipot, and tie it on with a piece of string.
8. Take a saucepan of hot water and put it on the fire.
9. "When the water is quite boiling, stand the little gallipot in it.
N. B. - The water must not quite reach the paper with which the gallipot is covered.
10. Draw this saucepan to the side of the fire, and let it simmer for a quarter of an hour.
N. B. - It must not boil, or the custard will be spoiled.
11. Take the gallipot out of the saucepan, take off the buttered paper, and the custard is ready for serving.
 
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