Back to Basics! Making a Great Pastry Cream | The Kitchn

Ingredients

• http://www.thequenelle.com/2010/01/perfect-patry-cream-recipe.html
• Check out this innovative way of making pastry cream, via Spain -
• I've never heard of making pastry cream with flour, it's always been cornstarch. Is there a benefit/downside to making it with one or the other?
• What kinds of things have you done with pastry cream?
• To make a chocolate pastry cream, melt a handful of chocolate (about 2 ounces) into the pastry cream in the last minute of cooking.
• Slowly pour in the warm milk while whisking the egg-sugar mixture constantly. Transfer the mixture back to the saucepan.
• In one of the mixing bowls, whisk together the egg yolks and sugar until smooth and thick. Whisk in the flour and salt.
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• • 1 ½ cups whole milk or half-and-half

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