Egg Custard - cooking recipe

Ingredients

4 eggs
4 Tbsp. sugar
pinch of salt
1/2 tsp. vanilla
4 c. milk

Preparation

Beat eggs, sugar, salt\tand
vanilla
together\tby
hand until foamy.
Heat milk slowly until
scalding
and
add to egg mixture while beating.
Sprinkle
top with nutmeg (if desired). Put pan in hot water in middle of
oven
and bake at 350\u00b0 for 1 hour.\tAdd cooked rice to make rice pudding or add cubes of old bread and raisins for bread pudding.