Floating Island.
1 quart of milk.
4 eggs, whites and yolks beaten separately.
4 tablespoonfuls (great ones) of sugar.
2 teaspoonfuls extract of bitter almond or vanilla. (Colgate’s extracts are the best in market, and do not spoil within a few days after they are uncorked, as the manner of some is.)
½ cup of currant jelly.
Heat the milk to scalding, but not boiling. Beat the yolks, stir into them the sugar, and pour upon them, gradually and mixing well, a cupful of the hot milk. Return to the saucepan and boil until it begins to thicken. You can do this while breakfast is cooking, before the Moloch clothes-boiler goes on. When cool, flavor and pour into a glass dish. Heap upon the top a méringue of the whites whipped until you can cut it, into which you have beaten the jelly, a teaspoonful at a time.