Time: 30min prep / 50min bake
Servings: 10
Rating: 4/5
Recipe from Taste of Home: https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/get-well-custard/
INGREDIENTS
- 4 eggs
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 4 cups whole milk
- 1 tsp vanilla
- Ground nutmeg
INSTRUCTIONS
- Preheat oven to 350 deg F. Boil water for baking.
- In a large bowl, whisk together eggs, sugar, and salt.
- Heat milk in saucepan until bubbles appear at the edges.
- Stir in hot milk into large bowl. Add in vanilla.
- Pour custard mixture through strainer into the baking dish. Sprinkle with nutmeg.
- Place custard baking dish in pan and add hot water around the custard dish.
- Bake for 55-60 min or until knife comes out clean.
- Cool for 30min then refrigerate.
Thoughts
Very smooth custardy texture that I was craving. Next time, I would go lighter on the nutmeg or skip it. I would probably also halve the recipe. The smaller glass dish took 30min, the larger one 50min. Plain custard would probably also go well with fruit or jam.
