Easy Custard

Name: Easy Custard
Yield: Serves 7 (Makes 3 1/2 cups)
Ingredients: 2 cups, heavy cream; 1/2 cup (3½ ounces), sugar; Pinch, table salt; 5 , large egg yolks; 3 tablespoons, cornstarch; 4 tablespoons, unsalted butter, cold, cut into 4 pieces; 1 1/2 teaspoons, vanilla extract

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Appears in Cook's Country December/January 2006

Desserts or Baked Goods

Puddings, Custards, Gelatins, & Souffles

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SERVES7 (Makes 3 1/2 cups)

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

UPDATE: This recipe has been slightly reformulated to be more failproof since its initial publication. The revision you see here was published in August of 2021. Pastry cream is the key ingredient in many desserts, so we developed a failpro...

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