Name: Crema Cremada (Catalan crème brûlée)
Cuisine: Italy
Ingredients: a poker (or salamander); 1 litre of milk; 4 tablespoons of granulated sugar; a little caster sugar; ½ stick of cinnamon; 2 tablespoons of plain flour; the rind of a fresh lemon; 4 egg yolks

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Honey from a Weed

By Patience Gray

Published 1986

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Ingredients

4 egg yolks
4 tablespoons of granulated sugar
2 tablespoons

Method

Beat up the egg yolks in a bowl with the sugar. Mix the flour with a little of the milk to a paste, in a basin. Infuse the cinnamon stick and grated lemon rind in the rest of the milk, just bringing it to the boil, then letting it cool.

Strain the perfumed milk onto the flour and milk paste, stirring, then add this gradually to the egg yolks and sugar. Transfer to an enamelled pan and h