American Southern

Pap Custard

Name: Pap Custard
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 8 servings
Ingredients: 1 each flour; 0.5 lb butter; 12 each eggs; 1 lb sugar; 1 each nutmeg; 1 each lemon; 2 cups sweet milk

Historic recipe from Malinda Russell's 1866 cookbook "A Domestic Cook Book". Page 23. One of the earliest known cookbooks by an African American author.

15 minPrep Time

30 minCook Time

8Servings

mediumDifficulty

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Instructions

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One quart sweet milk, boiled and thickened very thick with flour, nearly half lb butter; melt the butter in the boiling milk; twelve eggs, the whites beaten to a froth, yelks and one lb., creamed; flavor with and ; add the whites before flavoring.

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