Lemon Custard

Ingredients

• One cup of water
• One tablespoon of flour or corn starch
• Three eggs
• One cup of brown sugar
• One lemon
• One cup of pulverized sugar

Directions

1. Boil a cup of water.
2. Stir in the flour or corn starch.
3. Beat the yolks of three eggs with a cup of brown sugar.
4. Add the juice of one lemon, strained, and beat with the yolks and sugar.
5. Pour into a cake pan and bake.
6. Take the whites of the eggs and beat them with one cup of pulverized sugar.
7. Spread icing on the custard.
8. Brown lightly.

Source — La Cuisine Creole
Prepared by Catherine Weldon
Louisiana Anthology
September 30, 2023