Custard Pudding
Ingredients
Directions
The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.
Prepare
Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C).
Roll out puff pastry and place it around the edge of your baking dish.
Prepare custard according to your favorite baked custards recipe.
Assemble and bake
Stir the brandy into the custard mixture.
Pour the custard into the prepared dish with the puff pastry.
Bake until set and lightly golden.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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What each ingredient does
- Puff pastry
- Forms a flaky, golden crust around the edge of the dish.
- Custard
- Sets into the soft, creamy body of the pudding as it bakes.
- Brandy
- Adds a distinct aroma and flavour to the custard.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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