Any hostess will be able to prepare a custard, if you strictly follow the instructions. The basis of the delicious mass is the most common products that are in each kitchen. Optionally, cream can be aromaticized, prepare it with the addition of cocoa or add butter into it.
Custard products
For traditional cream you will need:
- milk - 2 glasses;
- sugar - 1.5 glasses;
- eggs (yolks) - 2 pcs;
- flour - 2 tablespoons.
How to cook ordinary custard
First of all, mix sand sugar and wheat flour. Next, take two large raw eggs and separate squirrels from yolks. Yolks Put into a clean dry bowl and scroll them with sugar and flour - dry ingredients add into yolks. Rubberize weight or handwriter, or with a blender using a soup-puree nozzle. The resulting mass is to spread half a cup of cold milk.
The rest of the milk (a half cup) is brought to very slow boil. In boiling milk with a thin flowing, pour the prepared mass of yolks, sugar, flour and milk. When infusing the cream constantly interfere with the wedge. Low fire under the kitchenware with cream to a minimum and heat the cream before it is thickening. When cooking cream, for a second, do not move away from the stove and constantly interfere with the contents of the bucket - you will not nourish the mass.
As soon as the cream becomes thick, retain it in a cool place for full cooling. So that the cream does not form a rough crust, cover the bucket with a large piece of food film and give it with their hands in such a way that it fell right on the surface of the cream.
The traditional custard cream is suitable for the manufacture of Napoleon cake.
How to make a custard cream with creamy taste
Prepare the cream according to the recipe described above and let it cool completely. While the mass is cooled, soften 150 g of high-quality butter. Butter put in a bowl for whipping and pour to it a tablespoon of powdered sugar. Wake up the mass with a mixer. When the oil becomes fluffy, pour it to it cooled custard and once again we hide everything.
Creamy butter cream is more dense, so it is good to use it for the filling of the eclairs.
How to cook chocolate custard
For a tasty cream with taste and chocolate color, you will need 3 more articles. l. Cocoa powder. Add it to sugar when you mix the last with flour. Next cream prepare in the same way as described in the first recipe. If, after cooling the chocolate custard, you will take it from 200 grams of soft butter, then such a thick cream is quite suitable for lubricating biscuit cakes.
How to cook flavored custard
Aromatize custard can be by any suitable ingredients. Such a cream is good to use for the preparation of portion desserts in glasses or creaman.
Vanilla cream
When cooking cream, when he does not completely thicken, add one bag of vanilla sugar to the bucket.
Lemon cream
In the already ready and cooled custard, put a tablespoon of lemon zest, grated on a very small grater.
Roma cream
5-6 drops of rum essence add to cold cream and mix it thoroughly.
In the video below, you will find a few more pretty original home custard recipes. You can prepare a delicious cream from the store concentrate - the cooking method is indicated on the pack.