Five eggs, 1 1/2 cupfuls sugar, 4 tablespoonfuls corn starch, 3 pints milk.

Dissolve the corn starch in a little cold milk, and add 1 cupful of sugar and the yolks of the eggs beaten. Boil 3 pints of milk and add the other ingredients while boiling; remove from the fire when it becomes quite thick; flavor with vanilla and pour into a baking-dish; beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, add 1/2 cup sugar, turn over the pudding, and place it in the oven and let brown slightly.

Sauce For Velvet Pudding

Yolks of 2 eggs, 1 cupful sugar, 1 tablespoonful butter, 1 cup milk.

Well beat the yolks, sugar and butter; add to the milk (boiling), and set on the stove till it comes to boiling heat; flavor with vanilla.