How To Make Custard

Ingredients

 

11/2 cups milk
½ cup sugar
½ teaspoon vanilla
11/2 tablespoons cornstarch
1 egg yolk

Method

 

- In sauce pan put 11/4 cup milk, add sugar and vanilla, stir until completely dissolved.
 
- Let it come to a boil, lower the heat.
 
- Dissolve the starch in the remaining milk.
 
- Gradually add the starch mixture to the milk mixture with frequent stirring until come to a boil again.
 
- Lower the heat and leave till fully cooked and thickened.
 
- Set the mixture aside, then whisk the yolk and add it to the milk, stir until well combined.
 
- Leave the custard to cool, cover with a parchment paper directly touching the surface of the custard to avoid forming a crust.
 
- Custard is used as a pie filling, and could be thickened more to be cut and rolled on flour and fried in butter.