Quick recipe that explains how to make custard without cream, an indispensable compound for making different types of desserts, for which few ingredients are required.
Ingredients for 4 people
- 3 egg yolks
- 2 tablespoons of flour
- 2 spoons of sugar
- 4 dl of milk
- 1 piece of lemon peel
How to prepare the custard without cream
Work the yolks with the sugar, add the sifted flour and mix.
After boiling the milk with the lemon peel, remove the peel and pour the milk on the prepared mixture, then put it on the fire.
Stir continuously with a wooden spoon and as soon as the cream starts to boil, remove it from the heat, mix it and put it back on the heat.
This operation must be repeated three times. When it is cold, the custard can be combined with slightly sweetened whipped cream, in equal proportions, mixing from the bottom up, in order to obtain the diplomatic cream.
Definition of custard
It is served in spoon desserts or also used to garnish various types of cakes, sponge cake, cream or ricotta cannoli, baby cream and many other pastry specialties.
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The main ingredients that make up the custard are eggs, sugar, milk and flour combined with others that contribute to creating numerous variations among the cooking recipes including diplomatic cream, very good if combined with excellent dessert wines, obtained from the union with whipped cream, lemon cream, flavored with a lemon zest, vanilla cream, obtained by adding a simple sachet of vanilla, and chocolate cream with the introduction of a good dose of dark cocoa.
Chantilly cream, used especially in pastry shops as a filling or decoration for various types of desserts, is a particular cream that is obtained by working whipped cream with the union of vanilla essences.
The recipe originates from the one first experimented by the Frenchman François Vatel at the end of the seventeenth century, which involved the combined use of whipped cream and icing sugar with vanilla flavors.
The burnt cream, from the French creme brule ', is one of the typical dessert products and is based on custard lined with a crunchy sheet of caramelized sugar.
