Great-Grandma Josephine Borgman's Custard Cups
Patricia Van Vels
An “old-fashioned” dessert but still good and healthy.
ingredients
- 2 eggs, beaten with whisk
- 2 cup milk
- 5 Tbsp sugar
- salt, dash
- 1 tsp vanilla
- grated nutmeg
directions
- 1
Add milk to beaten eggs.
- 2
Add remaining ingredients except nutmeg.
- 3
Pour into 5 custard cups which have been placed in a 9 by 9 in. pan.
- 4
Pour boiling water around the custard cups until water is one half the way up the sides of the cups.
- 5
Dust top of cups with grated nutmeg.
- 6
Bake in 350 degree oven for one hour.
notes
Great-Grandma Borgman made these custards almost every week for Great-Grandpa. The custards need the boiling water bath so that they do not bake too quickly and become hard and tough. A light dessert or snack.
Source: Patricia
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