Pear Patina

This patina is a fruit-based egg custard flavoured with cumin. An odd combination, you may think, but it works very well and has been one of my more popular dishes at dinner parties and at re-enactment demonstrations – where the addition of fish sauce to a dessert always causes consternation until it is tasted. Anyone who saw the television series What the Romans did for us with Adam Hart-Davies may possibly remember it was called a ‘fishy custard’. They gave it this name beca