Grandmother's Custard: delicious and traditional recipe

The Custard have become over the last decades in some of the most important desserts of all Spanish cuisine. Surely many of you who have started reading this article have had the opportunity to taste this sweet that has as its main ingredients the milk, egg yolks, sugar and vanilla.

It must be said that the exact origin of the custard is unknown. Although numerous sources and gastronomic studies place it in the humble kitchens of the convents spread throughout Western Europe.

At that time, it was a dessert that was very easy to prepare since all the ingredients were scattered in nature. Because of this, it was a sweet that married very well with the values of austerity and poverty that priests and monks promulgated during the Middle Ages.

All without mentioning that it was a food very rich in animal proteins and fats that satiated the stomachs of those orphan children who swarmed around the convents.

Over the centuries, the custard also became a dessert was consumed a lot in the French elites in the golden age due to its more than exquisite and characteristic flavor. And nowadays it has become deservedly one of the most significant sweets of the Mediterranean diet.

How to make grandmother's custard homemade. Very simple recipe

We are very confident that after reading all these lines you have started to make your mouth water with everything we have told you about custard Once you know this, what do you think about it? prepare them with your own hands through a simple recipe with which you are going to suck your fingers ?.

Ingredients:

Well, if so, just have to take pencil and paper to write down the following ingredients: 1 liter of whole milk, five tablespoons of sugar, two tablespoons of corn flour, 1 sprig of cinnamon, cookies, 5 eggs and a little lemon zest.

Preparation of grandmother's custard:

Do you already have everything? Well now it only remains that you follow carefully all these steps so that you can enjoy these custard that is it will look a lot like those your grandmother prepared for you when you are small:

We heat 750ml of milk with cinnamon and lemon zest. Before it breaks boil, lower the heat and stir for five minutes.
After this, we mix the yolks of the eggs in a bowl with the sugar, the rest of the milk and the cornstarch. It is a good idea to use rods so that everything is mixed homogeneously.
We combine the milk from the first point and add it to the bowl with the rest of the ingredients gradually. We continue beating vigorously until we get some thick custard.
Next, we have to pour this new mixture into a larger container that we will leave a couple of hours in the fridge to set well.
Finally, just pour this mixture into individual bowls to which we will give a final touch with a cookie mary at the top. And to enjoy!.