Custard

make your own custard that everyone will enjoy , yes it is a little rich but will go well with christmas pudding or fruit just about anything really .

Thanks to Sally for asking me to put up the custard recipe .

Ingredients

600 ml thicken cream

6 egg yolks

½ cup of sugar

Tps vanilla essence or 1 vanilla pod split

1 or 2 tbl spoons of corn flour mixed in a little milk

In a medium bowl place egg yolks and sugar, beat ( whisk) until thick and creamy and egg yolks are lighter in colour .

In a medium saucepan place the cream and seeds (pod) and bring to the boil once boiled remove from heat and strain , ( Note if you are using vanilla essence you can add it to the boiled cream or add after you have combined the cream and egg yolks ) now slowly pour the hot cream into the egg mixture and continuously whisk , place back into the saucepan and reduce the heat to a simmer ( note you can easily burn your custard at this point)

Now add your corn flour to the custard a little at a time stirring all the time , to gain the required thickness of the custard you like .

This custard is better than any you will buy in the store and ten times better than any custard powder , its almost to die for

It is also an excellent base for ice-cream just increase the sugar by ½ a cup and add whatever you like then freeze .

Steamed pudding

Published on Saturday, 10 December 2011 04:40 |

Written by Ralph |

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Steamed pudding

Ingredients

1 cup self raising flour

1 cup plain flour

1 tps bi carb

2 tps mixed spice

1 tps ground ginger

125g butter

2 eggs beaten

1 cup firmly packed brown sugar

1 cup mix dried fruit

½ cup glazed cherries

1 cup raisins

1 cup pitted dates

1 cup pitted prunes

¼ cup brandy

Optional rind of 1 orange

Custard to serve

Method

Crease and line an 8 cup pudding steamer.

Place all dried fruit in a sauce pan with 1 cup water, the brown sugar and the butter, bring to the boil then allow to simmer for 5 minutes , remove from the heat and stir in the bicarbonate of soda and allow to cool.

Once cool stir in beaten eggs, orange rind and the Brandy

Mix and sift plain flour , self raising flour, mixed spice and the ground ginger,

Now thoroughly mix the wet and dry ingredients together , once you are happy they are mixed well place into the pudding steamer. Place you steam into a lager saucepan of boiling water ,making sure that the boiling water is half way up your pudding steamer cover with the lid and reduce the heat to a simmer .

Simmer for 4 hours .

After 4 hours remove the pudding steamer and let stand for 5 to 10 minutes then turn out and serve with custard or Brandy cream.

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