Custard
- 1 liter milk
- 1 stick cinnamon
- 7 egg yolks
- 200 grams sugar
- 20 grams cornstarch
- 6 biscuits or cookies
- 1 sugar and cinnamon mixed together, for decorating
- 1 medium lemon peel (be sure you take away the white part under the lemon skin)
- Warm 3/4 liter of the milk with the cinnamon stick and the lemon peel.
- Don't let it boil.
- When the milk gets the smell and the taste, take out of the heat and let it cool.
- Dilute the cornstarch in the remaining 1/4 liter of milk (this one doesn't have to be warm).
- Mix the egg yolks with the sugar, stirring well.
- Strain the hot milk over the mixture of the egg yolks.
- Stir well until you get a liquid cream.
- Warm slightly this cream.
- Add the 1/4 liter milk with the cornstarch to the cream.
- Stir all the time until the mix thicken.
- Be careful, it can stick to the pan and get burnt.
- When the curd is thick, put it aside from the heat and distribute it in bowls, glasses... wherever you want to present them.
- Let them cool in the fridge for 1 hour more or less.
- Before serving them, sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon and decorate with the biscuits or cookies.
milk, cinnamon, egg yolks, sugar, cornstarch, cookies, sugar, lemon peel
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/358480-custard (may not work)