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Real custard sauce (crème anglaise)

Real custard or vanilla sauce consists of egg yolks beaten with sugar and cooked slowly in vanilla milk. It is the base or the accompaniment for many desserts.

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Last modified on: January 17^th 2018

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For 350 g, you will need:

1 250 ml whole milk
2 1 vanilla pod
3 3 egg yolks
4 40 g caster sugar
Total weight: 353 grams

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16 min.	15 min.	13 min.	44 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

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In a pan, pour 250 ml whole milk and add 1 vanilla pod.

Stage 2 - 5 min.

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Bring to the boil, then turn off the heat, cover the pan and leave vanilla to infuse 10 minutes.

Stage 3 - 4 min.

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Put 3 egg yolks and 40 g caster sugar in a bowl.

Stage 4 - 2 min.

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And without delay mix well using a maryse.

Stage 5 - 3 min.

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Pour the hot milk onto the egg yolks + sugar and mix well.

Stage 6 - 2 min.

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Wash the pan, and pour the mixture back into it through a fine strainer to eliminate any small impurities which are left.

Stage 7 - 8 min.

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Put on medium heat, and cook while stirring continuously, scraping the bottom of the pan with a maryse or a spatula.

To start with you will notice that the mixture doesn't "glaze" the maryse or the spatula.

Stage 8

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But when custard is cooked, it "glazes" the spatula. This happens after about 10 minutes.

Be careful during cooking: the custard should never boil, otherwise it will go lumpy... If unfortunately this happens to you, take off the heat immediately and mixer for a few seconds.

Stage 9

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Other way to be sure of good texture, use a thermometer and stop cooking at 180-185°F (82-85°C), never more.

Stage 10 - 15 min.

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When ready, take off the heat and plunge the bottom into a little cold water (in the sink will do fine) to stop cooking, leave to cool, stirring from time to time.

Stage 11

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When cold, your crème anglaise is ready.

Remarks

Your crème anglaise will be better if you use full-cream milk.

If you have too many egg whites, you can make meringues or financiers with them.

Keeping

Several days in the fridge, in a closed jar.

Source

From Gaston Lenôtre.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
537 Kcal or 2,248 Kj	22 gr	49 gr	28 gr
27 %	9 %	5 %	4 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
152 Kcal or 636 Kj	6 gr	14 gr	8 gr
8 %	2 %	1 %	1 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

Possible allergens in this recipe: Milk, Egg

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For 350 g : 3.09 €

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Whole milk: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Parmesan cauliflower cheese, Lime confectioner's custard (pastry cream), Mousse with two chocolates, Rice pudding (riz au lait), Canadian rice pudding, ... All
	Caster sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Apple confectioner's custard, Apple charlotte with toasted brioche, Milk rolls, Chouquettes, Muffin dough, ... All
	Egg yolk: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Peach and verbena feuilleté, Pistachio ice cream, Panettone, Mousse with two chocolates, Crusty cockle tart, ... All
	Vanilla pod: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Rice pudding (riz au lait), Apricot jam with vanilla, Cannelés, Chocolate cream with a crunch, irish coffee mousse, Fruit salad, ... All

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Your 2 comments or questions on this recipe

This recipe is too much liquid for a macaroon filling, you should better use confectioner's custard.
Posted by jh may 6^th 2012 at 10:01 (n° 2)
Would it be better to make this recipe or confectioner's custard to fill macarons?
Posted by Bek may 6^th 2012 at 01:44 (n° 1)

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