Alice Medrich

Pastry Cream

Preparation info
  • Makes

    1⅓ cups

    tarts
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Alice Medrich

Published 1990

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Ingredients

  • 3 tablespoons sugar
  • 1½ tablespoons flour
  • 1½ tablespoons

Method

  1. In a mixing bowl, sift together sugar, flour, and cornstarch. Add egg yolks and whisk by hand or with an electric mixer, until pale and light.
  2. Scald the milk in a medium nonreactive saucepan. Pour hot milk gradually over yolk mixture, whisking constantly until all the milk is added. Return mixture to saucepan and cook on medium heat, stirring constantly, reachi