Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Safer Creme Brule

I am creating this blog with the hope that I can find or create nourishing recipes and food items that taste good and are healthful. I would like to find recipes that we cherish and adapt them to a nourishing standard. With that concept in mind, I will explain what I did tonight with Creme Brule!
  I found a recipe on the internet, from the New York Times for Creme Brule. I used only 4 ingredients and experimented with it. It turned out great! And I didn't use sugar either! I used a cup of milk and a cup of heavy cream. I put those in a pot with part of a vanilla bean and heated it until it was hot (not boiling). I mixed 5 egg yolks with 1/2 cup stevia in the mixer bowl. Slowly, I added the milk mixture and mixed it all together, then poured the mixture into 5 pyrex glass dessert dishes. I filled 2 pans halfway up with water and placed the dessert dishes inside of them. I put them in the oven and baked for about 40 minutes at 325. Then I sprinkled about a spoonful of stevia onto the top of each pudding and placed them back into the oven. Instead of broiling, I turned the heat to 450 and left them in the oven about 5 minutes. The tops actually got darker and looks like real Creme Brule! A word of caution with glass dishes. Years ago, Pyrex and Corningware made a strong, fireproof product, but now Pyrex and Corningware are owned by a company in China (I want to think the name is something like, New World Kitchen). The glass products that are put out by these companies are not fire proof anymore. You can't put them under a broiler, or they could break. It is very sad that even our dishes and utensils have come to this! If you make this recipe, enjoy it! It is pretty rich on it's own.
  I also made homemade whipped cream. I took some raw heavy cream and whipped it up and added stevia (I sound like a salesman for stevia!). So now there is whipped cream for the top of the pudding dishes!

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