Boiled Custards. Time—½ hour.
1 pint milk, 3 eggs, 1 bay leaf or ½ vanilla bean, 6 lumps sugar.
Put the milk on to boil with the vanilla bean and sugar in it; meanwhile beat up the eggs, taking out the treads (little white lumps). Pour the boiling milk on to the eggs. Pour the mixture into a jug, stand this in a saucepan of boiling water over the fire, and stir the custard till it has thickened.