Baked Custard

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Ingredients

3 slightly beaten eggs

2 cups milk, scalded

1/4 cup white or brown sugar

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Preparation

Combine eggs, sugar and 1/4 teaspoon salt. Slowly stir in slightly cooled milk and vanilla. Fill six 5-ounce custard cups; set in shallow pan on oven rack. Pour hot water into pan, 1 inch deep.

Bake at 325 degrees for 40 to 45 minutes, or until knife inserted off- center comes out clean. Serve warm or chilled. To unmold chilled custard, first loosen edge; then slip point of knife down side to let air in. Invert.

For one large custard, bake in 1 quart casserole about 60 minutes.