Cheap, and Excellent Custards
Boil three pints of new milk, with a bit of lemonpeel, a bit of cinnamon, two or three bayleaves, and sweeten it. Meanwhile, rub down smooth a large spoonful of rice flour into a cup of cold milk, and mix with it two yelks of egg well beaten. Take a bason of the boiling milk, and mix with the cold, and then pour that to the boiling; stirring it one way, till it begins to thicken, and is just going to boil up; then pour it into a pan, stir it some time, add a large spoonful of peachwater, two teaspoonfuls of brandy, or a little ratafia.