Vanilla Custard
Updated: Sep 16
It's so easy, you'll never buy custard powder again.
Recipe Creator: Jennifer Walsh
Vanilla custard is one of those traditional recipes worth learning from scratch. Made with milk, egg yolks, sugar and vanilla, it turns a handful of familiar ingredients into something beautifully smooth, rich and comforting.
This recipe can be served warm and generously spooned over cakes, puddings or fresh fruit, or chilled in little jars with berries and mint. Once you understand the gentle process of tempering the eggs and stirring the custard as it thickens, it becomes a wonderfully useful recipe to keep in your home-cooking collection.
I’ve been needing a few more ideas for the kids’ lunchboxes, something a little different from the usual fruit, crackers and baked treats, and then it occurred to me: custard.
It’s such a simple sweet treat, but one I know the girls will enjoy. Packing a little jar in their lunchbox feels like special treat, with an extra bonus of being so easily whipped up.
For me, there's nothing more comforting than knowing knowing exactly what’s gone into it, rather than reaching for a store-bought custard filled with ingredients I wouldn’t necessarily understand.
That’s really what I’m trying to do more of lately: not take every treat away, but learn how to make the things we already enjoy from scratch at home. Custard seemed like the perfect one to add to the list.
A little homemade sweetness tucked into their lunchbox, and hopefully an empty jar coming home at the end of the day.
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Happy cooking,
L-ikla t-tajba
(Maltese for Enjoy your meal)
Made this, it was so lovely, silky vanilla custard. I'll never buy it again, had no idea it was so simple to make from scratch, thank you Jennifer🙏