Take four large ripe lemons, and roll them under
your hand on the table to increase the juice. Then squeeze them
into a bowl, and mix with the juice a very small tea-cup full of
cold water. Use none of the peel. Add gradually sufficient sugar
to make it very sweet. Beat twelve eggs till quite light, and then
stir the lemon juice gradually into them, beating very hard at the
last. Put the mixture into cups, and bake it ten minutes. When
done, grate nutmeg over the top of each, and set them among ice,
or in a very cold place.
These custards being made without milk, can be prepared at a short
notice; they will be found very fine.
Orange custards may be made in the same manner.