Honey Custard was Re: [Sca-cooks] Camp Food)

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

There is a recipe for something called Soft Custard like this in the
custard section of _The New Settlement Cookbook_ (my basics bible).
Basically, mix the eggs and milk and sweetener and cook on very low heat
until it's set. This recipe calls for stirring it, but if you were cooking
it in the hot ashes, for instance, you wouldn't have to stir it.

Margaret, who is home sick and thus thinking pudding thoughts anyway

> It is filtered into an earthenware pot and cooked over a low fire until it
> sets.  Basicly, a heavy sauce pan on low heat.  The recipe is roughly
> equivalent to custard cream (creme a l'Anglaise) using honey rather than
> sugar.
>
> Bear
>
> >This all give me an idea of steam baking honey custard
> >from Apicius rather than oven baking in a water bath.
> > Does anyone have instant access to the text and is
> >oven baking described in it?  Say I was a Roman woman
> >with a brazier or hearth but no oven, how would I cook
> >a custard?
> >
> >Bonne