Custard Pudding (very good)

One of the few recipes in the manuscript to have further annotation, this pudding has ‘very good’ written next to it, and has therefore always been known as ‘custard pudding very good’ to the team at Audley End. It is essentially a set custard, with the addition of a gelling agent (originally isinglass), to ensure that it will take the form of a mould and can be demoulded easily. The original calls for ‘sugar to taste’, and it is worth considering what you plan to serve with it: a very swee