Recipe for "butterscotch"

NAME

     BUTTERSCOTCH - Butterscotch pudding with a meringue top
     A delicious dessert for the sugar addict. It goes well  with
     apricot  chicken.  This is one of the family favourites that
     mum makes.

INGREDIENTS (Serves 4)

     250 ml    brown sugar
     2         eggs (separated)
     500 ml    milk
     20 g      plain flour
     20 g      butter
     40 g      white sugar

PROCEDURE

          (1)  Mix flour and brown sugar, adding beaten egg yolks
               and milk gradually.
          (2)  Put on to boil and thicken, stir constantly.
          (3)  Take off heat.
          (4)  Add butter and mix well.
          (5)  Pour into buttered pie dish.
          (6)  Beat egg whites with white  sugar  until  meringue
               consistency and pile on top.
          (7)  Bake in a pre-heated oven at 175 deg. C until mer-
               ingue is nicely brown.

NOTES

     It is very important not to let the oven get too hot!

RATING

     Difficulty: Moderate.  Time: 15 minutes  preparation,  about
     40 minutes cooking.  Precision: Measure the ingredients.

CONTRIBUTOR

     Greg Sharp
     Dept. Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
     gregor@vu44.uucp