Custard - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 gal. milk
12 eggs
3 c. sugar
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla or lemon flavoring

Preparation

Place
milk
in
double boiler on stove, leaving 2 cups out to mix with eggs and sugar.
Scald milk.
Beat eggs until mixed good, adding sugar gradually and mixing this well.\tAdd the 2 cups of cold milk to this and pour in the scalded milk. Stir and cook until thickened.
Before serving, add vanilla or lemon flavoring, whichever you like.