Crème Anglaise, the French name for English Cream is a light pouring custard used with various dessert types. You can almost serve Crème anglaise with any lovely dessert. With warm malva pudding or as decoration around a lovely Pavlova. This crème anglaise recipe is an “oldie” in my recipe journal and I have used it countless times through out my entire career. At first, I found the step where you must get it exactly to cover the back of a spoon, very hard to master, but with time I have mastered it. It just become easier and easier the more you do it. This is a lovely pouring custard to use on your dessert table if you serve a buffet. You can serve it in a lovely see through modern jug which can blend in and compliment the table as well. With this recipe, you can do the same as with the Crème Pâtissière recipe. You can cut the vanilla pod/bean lengthwise, scrape the seeds and then use the rest of the vanilla bean to flavour the milk and cream mix by adding it to it and discarding it later. The vanilla pod/bean seeds also give a lovely visual affect, another good reason to do it as it will show you have put in some extra effort!
Nutrition: Calories 15 Carbs: 3 g Protein: 0.4g Fat: 0.5g
Ingredients:
1 cup cream
1 cup milk
6 egg yolks
100 g caster sugar
2 vanilla pods/beans seeds
5 ml vanilla essence
Instructions:
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Heat the milk and cream in a saucepan over low heat.
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Add the vanilla bean/pod to it once you have cut it length ways and scraped the seeds out.
3
Add the scraped vanilla seeds in the milk mixture too.
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Beat the egg yolks and caster sugar until light and fluffy in a stainless steel bowl.
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TIP: Use a large bowl as the milk will later be transferred into the bowl as well.
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Set up a Bain Marie by filling up a saucepan to one third full.
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Place it on the gas flame and let it begin to warm.
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Place the bowl with the beaten egg yolk and caster sugar on the sauce pan with hot water and add the hot milk (the vanilla pod/bean now discarded) and cream to it by whisking well to mix it.
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Keep on whisking the mixture on low heat until it thickens.
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Once it is ready you will have to test it the following way: Pour some of the mixture on the back of a teaspoon- length ways, move your finger from upwards all the way downwards through the creme anglais e.
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If the line remains visible and is not pouring of the sides, it is cooked.
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If not, you need to cook it a bit longer.
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Last you can add the vanilla essence.
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Let cool and serve.
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ANOTHER TIP: It is not a pouring custard that needs to be served hot.
