BOILED CUSTARD.
Put a quart of milk on to boil with half of a vanilla bean or eight peach leaves, when they are in season; beat the yolks of six eggs and the whites of three; pour the milk boiling hot upon the eggs, stirring all the time; then put it in a pitcher, and set the pitcher in a pot of boiling water; stir it well till it is as thick as good cream; then pour it from one pitcher to another till it is nearly cold, when put it in cups, and ornament the tops with the whites of eggs and sugar beaten very light, on which put a strawberry, or a rosebud, or jelly.