Cre'me Anglaise (Wee Burn)

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Yield 1 Quart

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Ingredients

  • 24 oz whole milk
  • 8 egg yolks
  • 1 c sugar
  • 1 vanilla bean sliced open to extract beans
  • 4 0z cold milk

Preparation

Step 1

Bring milk to a boil. Beat egg yolks, sugar and vanilla together. Beat hot milk into yolk mixture while stirring yolk mixture. Retuen mixture to the stove. Constantly stirring with a plastic spatula, cook custard until the mixtue coats the spatual. Immediately add the cold milk. Strain through a fine sieve. Add to a cold water bath. Regrigerate.