{"id":19,"date":"2009-01-31T16:44:11","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T22:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.isitaboutmycube.com\/cooking\/?p=19"},"modified":"2009-01-31T16:44:11","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T22:44:11","slug":"vanilla-pastry-cream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.isitaboutmycube.com\/cooking\/?p=19","title":{"rendered":"Vanilla Pastry Cream"},"content":{"rendered":"

Makes 2 \u00bd cups <\/span><\/p>\n

Time: 15 minutes + chilling<\/span><\/p>\n

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2 cups whole milk<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00bd cup sugar<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00bc cup cornstarch<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00bc salt<\/span><\/p>\n

2 eggs<\/span><\/p>\n

2 T. butter<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00bd t. vanilla extract<\/span><\/p>\n

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Heat milk in a saucepan over medium until it begins to steam and bubbles form around the edge.\u00a0 <\/span>Remove milk from burner. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Whisk sugar, cornstarch, and salt together in a bowl.\u00a0 <\/span>Add the eggs and whisk until smooth, then gradually whisk in \u00bd of the hot milk.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Pour the egg-milk mixture into the remaining milk in the pan, and return pan to burner.\u00a0 <\/span>Cook custard over medium heat, whisking often, until thick.\u00a0 <\/span>Boil 1 minute whisking constantly, to eliminate the starchy taste of the flour and to thicken further.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Off heat, stir in butter and vanilla until butter is melted.\u00a0 <\/span>Transfer to a bowl and cover with plastic, pressing it onto the surface to prevent a skin from forming.\u00a0 <\/span>Chill before using.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Makes 2 \u00bd cups Time: 15 minutes + chilling \u00a0 2 cups whole milk \u00bd cup sugar \u00bc cup cornstarch \u00bc salt 2 eggs 2 T. butter \u00bd t. vanilla extract \u00a0 Heat milk in a saucepan over medium until it begins to steam and bubbles form around the edge.\u00a0 Remove milk from burner. \u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dessert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isitaboutmycube.com\/cooking\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isitaboutmycube.com\/cooking\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isitaboutmycube.com\/cooking\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isitaboutmycube.com\/cooking\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isitaboutmycube.com\/cooking\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.isitaboutmycube.com\/cooking\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20,"href":"http:\/\/www.isitaboutmycube.com\/cooking\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isitaboutmycube.com\/cooking\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isitaboutmycube.com\/cooking\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isitaboutmycube.com\/cooking\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}