This section is from the book "The White Ribbon Cook Book", by Kathryn Armstrong. Also available from Amazon: The White Ribbon Cook Book.
Two eggs, 2 cupfuls sugar, 4 tablespoonfuls corn-starch, 2 lemons, butter.
Beat the yolks of the eggs light, add the sugar; dissolve the corn-starch in a little cold water, stir into it 2 teacupfuls of boiling water; put in the juice of the lemons, with some of the grated peel. Mix all together with a teaspoonful of butter. Bake about 15 minutes. When done spread over the top the beaten whites of the eggs, and brown.
Three oz. crumbs, 3 oz. sugar, 3 oz. butter, the grated rind and juice of a lemon, 3/4 pint milk, 3 eggs, some good paste.
Mix the dry ingredients, pour over them the milk, made hot. When cold, add the eggs and lemon juice. Line a greased dish with thin paste, putting a double strip round the edge; pour the mixture into it, and bake in a moderate oven.
 
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