This sauce is the American version of crème anglaise, a vanilla custard sauce. Our recipe makes a basic vanilla sauce that goes well with every dessert. To enhance the sauce, you can add liquor (Calvados or pear brandy comes to mind). This sauce does not require heavy cream to taste sinful. Here, we use a milk base to create a simple, decadent sauce.
Ingredients
Makes 1 1/2 cups
Heat the milk in a 2-quart saucepan over medium-low heat just until warm. In a bowl, whisk together the yolks, sugar, and salt until slightly thickened and lighter in color. Slowly pour half of the warm milk into the yolkmixture, whisking continuously. Next, pour the yolk mixture back into the saucepan and cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture thickens and thickly coats the back of a spoon. Set a bowl over an ice bath, then strain the custard through a fine-mesh sieve set over the bowl. Add the vanilla and stir until cool. Stir in liquor to taste, then refrigerate for about 2 hours, until completely chilled, before serving.
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Back to Top家人很喜欢。谢谢你的分享。gre考试了at with my bread pudding.
lilypetals
6/12/2016
Great! I used splenda instead of sugar--no problems. I didn't strain. It would have looked marginally better if I had, but it still tasted fine. I paired it with a balsamic-fig reduction.
Ratlikm
Danville, VA
8/19/2013
We really liked this sauce. Very easy. I served Martini glasses filled with a variety of berries and laced the sauce over it, not too much. Sprinkled of powder sugar. Perfect and beautiful.
sharonfrai
Heathrow, FL
5/4/2013
I really like this sauce, but the recipe as is is way too sweet for me. Next time, I will use 1/4 cup of sugar first, let it warm together in the pan, and then adjust the sweetness. The 1/3 cuppa sugar makes it Kool-Aid sweet.
erimarie
Astoria, NY
12/23/2011
My grandmother made a dish like this and I lost the recipe but this is very much like it. I think I will make it for Thankgiving ans see if my sis knows it from 30 years ago. thank you
Sherriinmemphis
Memphis
11/20/2010
goes well with all deserts my family loved it!
yums
11/11/2010
