By: Rossella Rago, Cooking with Nonna
Ingredients
For 1 Batch
For the Cream:
- 3 3/4 cups milk (900 ml)
- 1/2 cup heavy cream (100 ml)
- 1 cup sugar (300 gr)
- 3/4 cup corn starch (100 gr)
- 10 egg yolks
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 lemon, peel only
Refer to Rossella’s video below for the step-by-step instructions:
Directions
- In a bowl, mix the milk, heavy cream, the beaten egg yolks and the vanilla.
- In a pot, add all the dry ingredients and mix well.
- Put the pot on the stove at medium heath and add the milk mixture. With a wooden spoon start mixing continuously.
- Add the lemon peel and continue to stir non-stop.
- After about 7-8 minutes, the mix will begin to thicken and form a cream.
- Once it reaches the desired cream consistency, remove the pot from the flame, remove the lemon peel and continue to stir for another 30 secs.
- Stir occasionally while the cream is cooling off.
- Once you remove the cream from the stove, transfer to a cooling pan and cover the entire surface of the cream with plastic wrap so that a skin will not form.
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