Custard Sauce Recipe from GourmetFoodPlaza.com

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Custard Sauce
Serve with steamed and baked puddings, fruit and mince pies or stewed fruit
Serves 4 - hot or cold
1/2 pint	Milk
1	Vanilla Pod
4	Egg Yolks
1 oz	Sugar

	Method
-	Reserve 3 tablespoons of the Milk
-	Place the remaining Milk and Vanilla Pod in a saucepan, bring almost to boil
-	Place the Egg Yolks, Sugar and reserved Milk in a bowl
-	Beat until thick and creamy
-	Remove the Vanilla Pod from the Milk and pour the Milk on to the Egg mixture
-	Strain the mixture into a heavy based saucepan and cook, stirring, until the Custard thinly coats the back of a spoon and is about the thickness of single cream
-	Pour into a cold jug, the sauce thickens on cooling

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