Custard and Cream Sauces

Sweet egg custard is a wonderful sauce as well as being the base for many other puddings, ice creams and mousses. Although you can flavour it with endless variations such as lemon or orange rind, coffee, chocolate and a variety of liqueurs, the flavour of real vanilla from an infused vanilla pod is hard to match. Pastry cream, also called crème patis-sière or confectioner’s custard, a rich filling for fruit tarts, cakes, éclairs and profiteroles, is simply thickened custard.