HOMEMADE CUSTARD

Milk (with or without lactose, or vegetable) 500 ml     

Cinnamon stick 1     

Small or medium vanilla pod 1   

Lemon Peel 1   

 Egg yolk 4   

75 g sugar   

.6  Corn starch (cornstarch) 1 tablespoon  

 Maria type cookies How to make homemade custard Difficulty:

 Easy     Total time 30 m     Elaboration 5 m     25 m cooking Place the milk in a saucepan with the cinnamon stick, the vanilla bean that we will have opened with a knife and the lemon rind - only the yellow part -. Heat, bring to a boil and remove from heat. Let infuse 15-20 minutes and strain. Arrange the egg yolks with the sugar in a bowl and beat with some rods. Add the cornstarch, beat well and slowly pour the milk, mixing with the rods to leave a homogeneous texture. Heat a bowl in the water bath and pour the preparation. Heat, without boiling water, stirring with the rods constantly, so that it does not stick. Continue cooking for about 10 minutes or more, until it thickens. Remember that hot the mixture will always be more liquid than when it cools. Fill the containers that we like and let cool a little. Place a Maria cookie carefully on each serving and take to the fridge. Let cool completely for a few hours before serving