Catalan Crème Brûlée

Crema Catalana is found on the menu of virtually every traditional restaurant in Catalonia. Often known as crema de Sant Josep, it is traditionally eaten on 19 March, St Joseph’s day. In times gone by, during the strict Lenten fast even eggs were off the menu, excepting this day when the glut of eggs, provided by hens oblivious to the Catholic calendar, was eaten into.

Gastronomes would probably consider it sacrilegious to use cornflour (cornstarch) to thicken the cust