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Date Crème Brûlée
Preparation info
- For
Six
- Difficulty
Easy
Appears in
By Peter Gordon
Published 1997
This is a slight twist on the traditional French dessert, and one which I prefer. For another mouthwatering variation replace the dates with 6-8 raspberries or 2 teaspoons of fresh passionfruit pulp per ramekin to make a sensational summer dessert.
Ingredients
900 ml 1½ pints )9 200
Method
You’ll need six 250ml (9fl oz) ceramic ramekins and a roasting tray as deep as the ramekins and just big enough to hold them. Bring a kettle full of water to the boil and turn the oven to 170°C/340°F/Gas 3-4.
Scrape the seeds from the vanilla pod and put in a pot with the cream and half the sugar (the stripped pod can go in a vanilla essence bottle to spice it up). Bring the cream to th