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Date: 27 November 2005 04:42:52
Gather your ingredients:
6 egg yolks
1/4 cup caster sugar
a vanilla bean pod (or I used the vanilla bean paste cos I'm a cheater)
3 cups of cream
some amount of icing sugar
Scrape the seeds out of the pod into a bowl with the egg yolks and sugar
Put the pod into a saucepan with the cream
Simultaneously heat the cream and pod to nearly boiling while whisking the egg yolks and sugar (you may need an extra pair of hands)
When the cream is hot, gradually pour it into the bowl while whisking
Set the bowl above simmering water and stir for 10 minutes or until it thickens. I stirred for about 20 minutes and saw no signs of thickening and gave up. Seems ok so far though!
Set out 6 half cup ramekins in a baking dish
Pour cream mixture into the ramekins (up to the top)
Fill the baking dish with boiling water 3/4 of the way up the sides of the ramekins
Bake in a medium slow (erm... 160 odd degrees celsius) oven for 20 minutes or until set
Remove from baking tray and cool to room temp then refrigerate for 2-3 hours or overnight
(I'm up to here)
Then!
Either put the ramekins in a baking dish full of ice, sprinkle with half the quantity of icing sugar and grill under a hot griller til melted then cover with the other half and grill till brown
Or do the same thing but use a blow torch instead of a griller.
*As i haven't finished making mine I'm not sure that this will work...