Tag: custard

Quindim - coconut baked custard
23Jul

Quindim

Best described as a coconut baked custard, this sweet is traditionally made in tiny molds and eaten in one bite. The perfect little snacks that you find in traditional bakeries in Brazil. I really wish I could have made more than 3 quindins but they were an accidental bake after having some leftover yolks and not knowing what to do with them. A problem you often face after making meringues. Next time you have extra yolks forget about curds and custards – make quindim. Quindim (serves 3) 1 tbsp butter, melted plus extra for greasing 6 egg yolks 100g caster sugar, plus extra for coating 100ml coconut milk 40g desiccated coconut 1. Heat oven to 180C. Rub 3 ramekins, about 100ml capacity liberally with the soft butter. Sprinkle with the caster sugar to coat. 2. Soak the coconut in coconut milk and leave it to rest for 10 minutes. Stir in sugar and let it rest for a couple of minutes. 3. Over a medium bowl sieve the egg yolks, perforating them, letting gravity make them run through the sieve.  Add melted butter to yolks. 4. Mix yolk and coconut mixtures with a hand whisk. Pour into ramekins and place in
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Banana bread trifle with custard and salted caramel
12Aug

Banana cake trifle

Our fridge has buckled during the heatwave, it has slowly given up on us and the amount of food we’ve had to throw away is tragic. We’re big on bananas but we haven’t been able to keep up with how quickly they have gone from green tips to freckled black, the perfect excuse to experiment with banana bread recipes. I have made banana bread with sour cream, yoghurt, buttermilk, black treacle. My work colleagues were sick of it and so was my family, my freezer started to work overtime to keep it all from going to waste. There are no rules when it comes to layering these trifle pots, mix and alternate as much as your glass is tall with banana, cake, custard and salted caramel. Top it with loads of caramelised nuts. Banana cake trifle (serves 3-4) For the custard: 150ml milk 150ml double cream 1 tsp vanilla paste 1 tbsp cornflour 3 egg yolks 50g sugar 1. Add milk, double cream and vanilla paste to pan and bring it to a slow boil, remove from heat and leave it to cool 2. Whisk the yolks and sugar until pale and fluffy, add to milky mixture, return to hob
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14Oct

Blackberry mille-feuille

My other half and I love going for long walks comes rain or shine. Mid summer I spotted loads of bramble heaped with blackberries. That in essence was not surprising to me, bramble bushes are 10 a penny around here, you even find them by the roundabout near my parents’ house, but I have always found that the “city” berries did not taste as good as the ones you buy in the supermarket, which is what I often resort to, reluctanlty paying £2 per 150g. But as our walks go deep in the New Forest and with all the sun that we had this year they were here early. So after a walk armed with an empty sandwich tub I started to pick them and in 5 minutes I had about 100g.  I was never going back to the supermarket. How can they charge so much for something that is widely found for free in the British Isles? We got greedy, we soon realized that the really juicy ones were right at the back of the bushes. And that was when I realized why they charge so much for them: thorns. And not just one type of thorn. Big ones and then little needle pin thin ones barely
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