Name: Summer Fruit Gratin
Yield: Serves 4–6
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 75 g plain flour; 400–500 g summer fruit (nectarines, strawberries, raspberries, peaches, redcurrants, or any other fruits and berries you prefer); 8 medium egg whites; lemon juice; 1 splash of rum, brandy or eau de vie; 6 medium egg yolks; 150 g caster sugar; 500 ml milk; 1 vanilla podr split lengthways

Preparation info

Serves
4–6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cooks Country

By Matt Tebbutt

Published 2008

About

Don’t be put off by the ‘gratin’ element. This dish is simple, delicious and quite startlingly beautiful. You will have some meringue and custard left over because it is difficult to make them in smaller quantities. But the custard, for instance, will keep well in the fridge for a few days, so can be used for another dish.

Ingredients

500 ml milk
1 vanilla podr split lengthways
6 medium egg yolks

Method

Put the milk in a saucepan with the vanilla pod, heat through gently and set aside to infuse.

Whisk the egg yolks and half the sugar together in a bowl until pale. Tip in the flour and stir to make a paste, then whisk in the warm, strained milk.

Return the mix to the stove, and stir until thickened and there’s no trace of flour. Set aside.

Preheat the grill.

Put