Confectioner's custard (Crème pâtissière, or French pastry cream)

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Confectioner's custard (Crème pâtissière, or French pastry cream)
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For 720 g, you will need:

Times:

PreparationCookingStart to finish
29 min.7 min.36 min.

Step by step recipe

1Pour 500 ml milk into a pan, and add the inside of 1 vanilla pod (the little black seeds) after carefully scraping them out with the tip a knife.

Bring to the boil on medium heat. As soon as it boils, take off the heat, cover and leave vanilla to infuse 10 minutes.
Confectioner's custard (Crème pâtissière, or French pastry cream) : etape 25
2Meanwhile, put 6 egg yolks in a bowl and add 100 g caster sugar, and without delay beat to mix thoroughly.

It is not necessary to beat for a long time to whiten, so it can be done by hand with a whisk in 1 minute.
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3Add then 40 g cornflour, and beat again with the whisk.Confectioner's custard (Crème pâtissière, or French pastry cream) : etape 25
4Then slowly pour the hot milk onto the mixture while beating continuously until thoroughly mixed.Confectioner's custard (Crème pâtissière, or French pastry cream) : etape 25
5Transfer the mixture back into the pan.Confectioner's custard (Crème pâtissière, or French pastry cream) : etape 25
6Unlike for crème anglaise or crème brûlée, it is not essential to remove the froth, it will get mixed in during cooking.

But it's better...
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7Put the pan on low-medium heat, and cook gently while beating continuously.

It's important to scrape the whisk over the bottom of the pan to avoid custard sticking.
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8Cooking is complete when custard is of a good consistency, in other words like a thickish purée, but not too firm..

The custard thickens quite quickly, especially if the heat is high, so do not to hesitate to take pan off heat, while continuing to stir, if this happens.

Also, remember that your custard will continue cooking for a little while after being removed from the heat, so bear this in mind when deciding at what point to stop...
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9Once custard is finished, cover the pan to avoid a skin forming.

Later, if you use the custard cold and it is too stiff, beat one or two tablespoonsful of cream into it vigorously.
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10When finished, cream is very hot, if you want to use it immediately you should cool it.

The easier solution is to put it in the fridge, but it's quite long.

The best way is to proceed as chefs, and spread it on a plastic film (to protect from the air) then put it in the fridge.
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11This short video show you how to proceed.Click to watch the video

Remarks

It's possible to flavour confectioner's custurd with other things rather than vanilla: coffee, alcohols, etc... You can also make a chocolate custard by folding about 100 g of chocolate, broken in small pieces into the custard with the whisk while it is still hot.
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