Crème caramel

Name: Crème caramel
Yield: Feeds four to eight
Ingredients: rind of one lemon; 6 eggs; 1 vanilla bean, split lengthwise; 1 litre (1¾ pints) milk; water to cover (just); 6 tbsp caster sugar; 3 extra egg yolks

Preparation info

Feeds
four to eight

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Old Food

By Jill Dupleix

Published 1998

About

There is a very good reason why crème caramel has become so damnably clichéd. It’s delicious. I often infuse the milk with lemon rind for extra fragrance and a light citrusy accent, but otherwise, there’s not much I would want to change.

Ingredients

1 litre (1¾ pints) milk
6 tbsp caster sugar

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Combine milk, sugar, lemon rind and vanilla bean and bring slowly to the boil. Remove from heat and leave to stand for 1 hour to infuse.

Heat the sugar for the caramel with just en