Crème à l’Anglaise

Name: Crème à l’Anglaise (Cream Sauce)
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 2 cups milk; 6 egg yolks; ¾ cup sugar; ¼ cup crème fraîche, or whipping cream; ½ teaspoon salt; 1 tablespoon Kirsch; 2 tablespoons Grand Marnier

Cream Sauce

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Hows and Whys of French Cooking

By Alma Lach

Published 1974

About

Ingredients

2 cups milk
6 egg yolks
¾ cup sugar

Europe
France
Sauce
Burgundy
Vegetarian
Gluten-free
Mediterranean

Method

Scald the milk. Beat yolks, sugar, and salt together in small mixer bowl. Gradually beat in the hot milk, then pour back into the pan the milk was in.
Set pan on an asbestos mat and cook over direct heat, or cook the sauce in a double boiler. It must not get too hot, and it must not boil. Stir-cook over very low heat until the sauce thickens. The foam on top