Traditional English custard from Delia's How to Cook: Book One (page 62) by Delia Smith

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    Can substitute vanilla extract for vanilla pod.

  • n_li8xmy on March 25, 2026

    Great tart and recipe. Recommended. Tasty too

  • adrienneyoung on November 12, 2012

    made this to turn some stale angel food cake into a trifle. Dead easy, but it curded a little bit. Perhaps the heat was too high? Not over-sweet, though. And a good use of some of the egg yolks left over after making an angel food! Keeper, I think.

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