Vanilla custard
The chilly weather is on its way. Work on your internal insulation with Sarah Bowman’s rich and warming vanilla custard
- 20 mins cooking
- Makes 500 millilitre
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Ingredients
Vanilla custard
- 2 cup milk
- 1 vanilla pod split lengthways
- 4 egg yolks
- 4 tablespoon sugar
Method
Vanilla custard
- 1Gently heat milk and vanilla in a pot until it just starts to simmer. Remove immediately from heat and extract vanilla pod, scraping seeds back into milk before discarding pod.
- 2Beat yolks and sugar until pale and thick in a medium bowl.
- 3Pour warm milk into yolks while beating. Return to pot and place over another pot part-filled with hot water. Place over heat and stir constantly until custard coats back of a wooden spoon. Remove from heat immediately and pour into a jug.
- 4Serve warm or chilled.
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