Beat the yolks of two eggs in a pudding-dish; add two cupfuls of sugar.
Dissolve four table-spoonfuls of corn starch in a little cold water.
Stir into it two tea-cupfuls of boiling water. Put in the juice of two
lemons, with some of the grated peel. Mix all together with a
tea-spoonful of butter. Bake it about fifteen minutes. When done, spread
over the top the beaten whites of the eggs sweetened, and let it color a
moment in the oven. To be eaten hot or cold.