Ginger Custard Sauce

This sauce is based on the famous French dessert sauce called crème anglaise (“English cream”). It’s something everyone should know how to make, with or without the ginger. Once cooled, it makes not only a delicious sweet sauce but is the basis for the very best ice cream you’ll ever eat. Simply put it in an ice-cream maker and freeze according to the manufacturers directions. I’m cooking the ginger in a sugar syrup here to inactivate the enzymes that can cause the cream to curdle. If not u