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Cream Custard

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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. Sugar
  2. a pound of fresh butter
  3. a quart of cream
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Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.

Method

  1. Take the crumb of a penny loaf and grate it very fine, and add to it a quart of cream with half a pound of fresh butter, and the yolks of a dozen e»gs, put to them as much sugar as will sweeten them, t hen let it thicken over the fire, make the custards shallow, and when they have stood half an hour in a slow oven, grate some loaf sugar over them, and serve.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Grater