milk soup
(from The Kentucky Housewife, by Lettice Bryan, 1839)
Ingredients:
Instructions:
(from The Kentucky Housewife, by Lettice Bryan, 1839)
Ingredients:
2 quarts sweet milk
1 stick cinnamon
several whole cloves
1 vanilla bean
6 egg yolks
1/2 pint milk
4 oz. butter, cut up and rolled in flour
1 tsp. nutmeg, grated
sugar
juice of one lemon
baked apples, or crumbled toast, rusks, or crackers
Instructions:
Boil two quarts of entire sweet milk with a stick of cinnamon, a few cloves, and a vanilla bean, till sufficiently flavored; then strain it, and return it to the pan. Beat the yolks of six eggs very light, mix them with half a pint of milk, and stir it gradually into the boiled milk; add four ounces of butter, rolled in flour, a grated nutmeg, and sugar to your taste. Just let it come to a boil, stirring it all the time, and remove it instantly from the fire, or it will curdle. Then stir in very gradually the juice of a lemon, and serve it immediately in a tureen on some baked apples, small bits of toasted bread, rusk, or pounded crackers.