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Maids of Honor

Ingredients

• 1 cupful of sour milk
• 1 cupful of sweet milk
• 1 tablespoonful of melted butter
• yolks of 4 eggs
• juice and rind of 1 lemon
• 1 small cupful of white pounded sugar

Instructions

Put both kinds of milk together in a vessel, which is set in another and let it become sufficiently heated to set the curd, then strain off the milk, rub the curd through a strainer, add butter to the curd, the sugar, well-beaten eggs and lemon. Line the little pans with the richest of puff paste and fill with the mixture; bake until firm in the centre, from ten to fifteen minutes.

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Source

The White House Cookbook (1887).