Simple Custard
Simple is good. Eggs, milk, and sugar. All three of those are in your fridge as we speak. Put them to use and make a custard, a Simple Custard.
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Servings: 6
Ingredients
- 4 eggs
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 4 cups milk
- ½ teaspoon nutmeg
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. In a medium/large bowl, use an electric mixer on medium-low speed to beat the eggs for around 30 seconds
- Add the sugar, salt, vanilla, and mix everything together.
- Add the milk to a separate container and microwave in 1 minute increments, until the milk reaches around 180°F. Stir the milk after each increment and check the temperature with a cooking thermometer before heating it again. It takes about 5-6 increments to reach 180°F.
- Take 1 cup of the hot milk and SLOWLY pour it into your egg mixture, continue to stir with your mixer constantly as you are pouring the milk.
- Now you can slowly pour the remainder of the milk into the egg mixture while mixing continuously. Continue to mix for 30 seconds.
- Get some oven proof containers (mugs or cups work) and place them inside an oven proof pan. (ideally you want a pan that is around the same height as the containers you're putting inside them). Now fill each container with the completed egg/milk mixture.
- Heat up a bunch of water (not boiling, but almost) and pour it into the pan until the water around the containers is about at the level of the egg/milk mixture. Be careful so you don't get water in the individual containers.
- Put the pan in the oven, try not to burn yourself or spill, and bake at 350°F for about 40 minutes. You'll know it's done when a knife comes out of the custard clean. The bigger the containers you use for the custard, the longer it will take. If it is not done when you test it, leave it in for 5 minutes, test with a knife, and repeat as needed.
- I think it's best refrigerated, but you can eat it hot out of the oven if you want.
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