Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery

by Marion Harland

Corn-Starch Blanc-mange. ✠

• 1 quart of milk.
• 4 tablespoonfuls corn-starch, wet in a little cold water.
• 3 eggs, well beaten—whites and yolks separately.
• 1 cup of sugar.
• Vanilla, lemon, or other essence.
• 1 saltspoonful salt.

Heat the milk to boiling; stir in the corn-starch and salt, and boil together five minutes (in a farina-kettle), then add the yolks, beaten light, with the sugar; boil two minutes longer, stirring all the while; remove the mixture from the fire, and beat in the whipped whites while it is boiling hot. Pour into a mould wet with cold water, and set in a cold place. Eat with sugar and cream.