How To Make Custard

Ingredients

• a sufficient quantity of fresh spinach
• a quart of rich unskimmed milk
• a quarter of a pound of loaf-sugar, broken very small
• a wine-glass of peach water
• the yellow rind of two large lemons grated off on some of the largest lumps of the sugar
• a vanilla bean
• bitter almonds or peach-kernels
• eight eggs
• sponge-cake or Naples biscuit slices
• green sweetmeats such as presented goose-berries, green gages, green grapes, or green citron melon
• two table-spoonfuls of rose-water
• pistachio-nuts pounded in a mortar
• a teacup-full of milk
• a small thin muslin bag filled with alkanet
• boiled beets
• beet-leaves
• half an ounce of gelatine
• a quart of milk
• a bunch of peach-leaves or a handful of bitter almonds broken up
• a stick of cinnamon broken in pieces
• four heaping table-spoonfuls of sugar
• eight large table-spoonfuls of Indian meal
• four large table-spoonfuls of powdered sugar
• a grated nutmeg