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15th Century Custard Tart
 
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Servings: 12
Not much different from today ancreamy and very good. I love the old recipes. Sometimes I sub lemon for cinbamon
Ingredients:
old way
make a little crust put in two egg yolks that have been well beaten, milk, cinnamon and sugar, and stir it near the hearth until it thickens.
4 egg yolks
2 c milk
1/2 t cinnamon
1/2 c sugar
9 pie crust
Directions:
1. Mix cinnamon and sugar together, mix in milk, add yolks and beat well, pour into pre-baked tart shell. Bake at 375deg. 50-60 minutes. To make little tarts, make half again the amount of crust and make into about 15 little tart shells by pressing the dough down into muffin tins. Bake about 10-15 minutes in 400deg. oven, then pour in filling and bake about 40 minutes at 375deg.
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3. Credits:
4. The above recipe is from Cariadoc's Miscellany. /~lindahl/cariadoc/miscellany.html
5. The Miscellany is Copyright (c) by David Friedman and Elizabeth Cook, 1988, 1990, 1992 and is included here with their permission.
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