Recipe for Beestings

[yugogypsy]

Hello,

This is a recipe for a custard using whatever colostrum is not feed to a calf or goat kids.

I have a cookbook from 1896 and its not got it and the Internet has proved NO help for a change.

If ANYONE out there knows how to make this, please tell me. Its something I'd like to do after we get goats and they have kids.

Lois

[ina]

My helpful book "Food in England" (Dorothy Hartley, 1954) gives an old recipe:

"The first food the calf receives is the beistyn. Being of the consistence of the yolk of the egg, it seems an appropriate food for a young calf." (Stevens, Book of the Farm 1844)

For making custard:

...it should be thinned down with four times its quantity of plain milk, sweetened, and set in a cool oven with some simple flavouring - a vanilla pod, or cinnamon stick. It will set exactly like the richest egg custard. A good finish is to cover the top with damp sugar, and crisp it under the grill...


This recipe is for cow's colostrum - I don't know whether it would work the same with goat's.

[yugogypsy]

Thank you Ina,

I will write that down in the proper morning-its 4:39 AM here
and I'm off to bed

Lois