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Crème brûlée

Name: Crème brûlée
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 400 ml high fat cream; 140 ml whole milk; 85 g sugar (preferred brown); 5 egg yolk; 1 vanilla bean (mark, optionally essence); 200 g Lemon peel, rubbed; 1 piece Sugar for the top crust

Zusammenfassung

Original recipe from Public Domain Recipes, released under the Unlicense. Source

Preparation

Mix cream, milk and yolks.
Add sugar, vanilla and lemon.
Let rest for at least 30 min (optionally over night)
Pour into 4-6 fireproof ramekins.
Pre-heat oven to 150°C and put the grease pan on the middle rail.
Put the ramekins onto the grease pan and fill it with boiling water.
Let the crème cook for 55 min.
Let the ramekins cool down to room temperature and put them in the fridge for at least 2 hours.
Spread a teaspoon of sugar onto each ramekin.
Use a blowtorch to flambé the sugar. Alternatively the grill of your oven may work too.