Ingredients. - Two pints of milk, four tablespoonfuls of cornflour, two tablespoonfuls of castor sugar, four eggs, two pinches of salt, the grated rind of a lemon.

Method. - Mix the cornflour smoothly with a little milk, boil the remainder, and add to it the cornflour, stirring all the time. Return to the saucepan, and boil gently until it thickens, then cool slightly. Add the sugar, yolks of eggs, salt and lemon rind, and stir for two or three minutes by the side of the fire. Whisk the whites to a stiff froth, lightly add them to the rest of the ingredients, pour into a buttered pie-dish, and bake slowly for half an hour.