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Plain Baked Custard

2 quarts of milk or cream. 1/2 pound of sugar. 24 yolks of eggs, or 16 whole. 2 tablespoonfuls of vanilla or lemon.

Beat the sugar and eggs together; pour in the milk and extract. Bake in a shallow pan about twenty or thirty minutes.

The preceding is everybody's acquaintance and for a cold pudding is excellent without sauce or any other addition. When it turns watery it is because of too much baking. But when it is desired to add to it some of our abundant fruits, which would harmonize with it so well an unpleasant state of fluidity results in spite of careful baking. Then the cooks say it is the fault of water in the milk, and blame the cows for going and standing in the river, as they are known to do, soaking themselves through and through for hours at a time. The difficulty can be overcome and a nice line of fruit eustards made in the following way.