Rum Custard Recipes

Steps:

• In a 2 1/2- to 3-quart heavy saucepan combine cream and milk. Scrape seeds from vanilla bean into cream mixture, dropping in bean. Add zest and bring mixture just to boil.
• In a large metal bowl whisk together brown sugar and yolks until combined well. Add hot cream mixture to yolk mixture in a slow stream, whisking, and return custard to pan. Cook custard over moderately low heat, whisking constantly, until thickened and coats back of a wooden spoon, about 3 minutes. (Do not let custard boil or it will curdle.)
• Pour custard through a very fine sieve into cleaned metal bowl and cool slightly. Stir in rum and chill, covered, until cold. Freeze custard in an ice-cream maker.

Steps:

• Combine everything except nutmeg.
• Pour into 4 individual custard cups.
• Top with a sprinkle of nutmeg.
• Set in a pan with 1 inch of water.
• Bake at 325F for 30 minutes until knife inserted in center comes out clean.
• Do not over bake.
• Serve warm or cold with little crispy cookies.

Steps:

• In a small bowl, combine raisins in rum and soak for at least 2 hours. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly coat a 10 by 3-inch round baking dish or 2-quart souffle dish with vegetable cooking spray. Add the bread cubes to the dish and sprinkle the raisin/rum mixture on top.
• In a large bowl, combine the milk, eggs, sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Stir the egg mixture into the bread/raisin mixture. Cover with foil. Place the baking dish in a larger, high-sided roasting pan. Add boiling water into the roasting pan around the baking dish to a depth of 2 inches. Bake for 45 minutes. Remove the foil. Continue baking, uncovered, for 5 minutes, until top is golden and the mixture is slightly puffed or until a knife inserted near the center comes out clean.
• Cool slightly before serving. If desired, serve with Creme Anglaise, flavored with rum to taste, if desired.

Steps:

• In a 2-quart heavy saucepan bring 2 cups of the milk, 2 tablespoons of the sugar, and the scraped vanilla bean to a boil over medium heat.
• In a large bowl, whisk together the egg yolks and remaining 2 tablespoons of sugar. Slowly pour 1 cup of the hot milk mixture, whisking constantly, into the egg yolk-sugar mixture. (Do not pour the entire yolk-sugar mixture into the boiling milk mixture, as it will curdle the eggs.) Whisk in the remaining milk. Pour the milk-yolk mixture into the saucepan and cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture coats the back of a spoon. Do not boil.
• Remove from the heat and stir in the rum. Strain the mixture through a fine wire sieve into a heat--proof bowl. Place the sauce in an ice bath. When cool, transfer the sauce to a bowl. Cover the surface with plastic wrap and chill in the refrigerator, until ready to use. Sauce will keep in the refrigerator for 4 to 5 days if well sealed.

Steps:

• Make custard squares:
• Butter an 8-inch-square baking pan.
• In a heavy saucepan bring milk just to a boil with cinnamon stick and star anise and keep at a bare simmer 15 minutes. Pour hot milk through a sieve into a large glass measuring cup or heatproof pitcher.
• In a bowl with an electric mixer beat together 3 eggs, cornstarch, 2/3 cup sugar, and salt and add hot milk in a stream, beating until smooth. Return custard to saucepan and bring to a boil, whisking constantly. (Custard may look curdled as it begins to thicken but will become smooth as it is boiled and whisked.) Boil custard, whisking vigorously, 1 minute and remove saucepan from heat. (Custard will be very thick and smooth.)
• Immediately pour custard into prepared baking pan, smoothing top, and chill, surface covered with plastic wrap, until firm, about 1 1/2 hours. Cut custard into 2-inch squares.
• In a small bowl whisk together bread crumbs, remaining 1/4 cup sugar, and ground cinnamon. In another small bowl lightly whisk remaining 2 eggs.
• Have ready flour in a bowl and a tray lined with wax paper. Working with 1 custard square at a time, coat square with flour, shaking off excess, and then with egg, letting excess drip off. Coat square with bread crumb mixture, transferring as coated to tray. Chill squares, uncovered 30 minutes.
• Make sauce:
• In a saucepan combine water, sugar, 1/2 cup rum, and star anise and simmer, uncovered, 15 minutes. Stir in remaining tablespoon rum and lime juice and pour mixture through a sieve into a glass measuring cup or heatproof pitcher.
• Preheat oven to 325°F. and set a rack in a shallow baking pan.
• In a heavy 12- to 14-inch skillet heat 1 1/2 inches oil over moderately high heat until it registers 375°F. on a deep-fat thermometer and fry squares in 3 batches until golden, about 15 seconds on each side. Carefully transfer squares as fried with a slotted spatula to rack to drain and keep warm in oven.
• Onto each of 8 dessert plates pour 2 tablespoons sauce. Halve 12 custard squares diagonally and arrange 3 triangles on each plate. Garnish dessert with star fruit and star anise.

Steps:

• Place the currants in a small bowl and pour the rum over them.
• Allow to soak for at least 20 minutes.
• Peel, core and cut the apples into 1/4 inch thick slices.
• At this point, pre-heat the oven to 350 F and start making the pastry.
• Combine the flour and butter in a large bowl and, working quickly, use your fingertips to rub the flour and fat together until they look like flakes of coarse meal.
• With a large spoon, beat in the egg yolks, one at a time, then beat in the sugar and lemon peel.
• Use your fingers to pat the pastry evenly into the bottom and sides of an 8-inch springform pan, 2 inches high.
• Now fill the pastry shell.
• Start by stirring the breadcrumbs and 2 tablespoons melted butter from the filling list of ingredients together in a small bowl.
• Sprinkle the mixture over the dough in the pan and spread the apples over it.
• Drain the currants and set the rum aside.
• Scatter the currants over the apples.
• Bake in the middle of the oven for 10 minutes.
• During this first stage of baking, beat the eggs and yolks for the custard along with the 1/3 cup sugar together until they are thick and lemon coloured.
• Beat in the rum and cream and pour half of this evenly over the apples in the parly baked cake.
• Bake the tart for 20 more minutes oruntil the custard is set, then pour in the rest of the custard and bake for 30 minutes longer.
• Combine the 2 tablespoons sugar and melted butter and sprinkle over the top of the tart.
• Bake in the top third of the oven for 15-20 minutes or until the top of the tart browns lightly.
• Remove the pan from the oven and let the tart cool completely before removing from the springform.
• Slide onto a cake plate and serve.

Steps:

• Line the base of a 1-litre pudding basin with a disc of baking parchment, then oil the parchment. Drain the pineapple and save the juice. Pat the rings dry with kitchen paper, then use them to line the base and sides of the basin, cutting the last couple to fill any gaps. Push a halved cherry in each pineapple hole and any other gaps - you should have some left over.
• Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Boil the kettle. Melt the remaining coconut oil in a pan or the microwave. While it cools, put 140g flour and the sugar into a bowl and stir together. Toss the remaining cherries through 1 tsp flour.
• Pour the coconut oil into the flour mixture along with the eggs, cherries and 2 tbsp pineapple juice. Fold everything together with a spatula and gently scrape into the pudding basin. Cover the pudding with a sheet of baking parchment, then a sheet of foil, with a folded pleat down the centre. Stand in a deep roasting tin on the middle shelf of the oven and pour the kettle-hot water into the tin, to come about half way up the sides of the basin. Bake for 2 hrs 15 mins. Insert a skewer into the centre of the pudding - it will come out clean if it's cooked, but if not, re-cover and return to the oven for 10 mins, then check again.
• To make the custard, pour the coconut milk into a small pan and warm it, but don't let it boil. Whisk the egg, yolk, cornflour, sugar and rum in a jug. Whisk in the warm coconut milk, then pour the liquid through a sieve back into the pan. Return to a low-medium heat and stir constantly until thickened. Stir in the vanilla.
• To serve, carefully turn it out onto a plate, brush the pudding with the warmed golden syrup, then serve hot with the warm coconut custard.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325.
• In a small bowl combine eggs, milk, sugar substitute, and vanilla. Beat until combined.
• Place 4 6 ounce custard cups in a 2 quart square baking dish.
• Divide egg mixture among custard cups, then sprinkle with allspice.
• Fill baking dish around custard cups with water to a a depth of 1".
• Bake for 30-45 minutes, or until a knife inserted near the center of each cup comes out clean.
• Remove cups from water.
• Cool slightly on a rack before serving.

Steps:

• CRUST:
• To make crust, mix flour, sugar, and lemon rind.
• Cut in butter or margarine until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
• Add egg yolk and 1 T of milk; mix gently to form a dough.
• Pat into bottom of a 10-inch Springform pan that has sides only greased.
• Press dough up sides of pan for 1 inch.
• FILLING:
• Toss together bread crumbs and melted butter.
• Spread evenly over pastry crust.
• Toss apple slices, lemon juice, and 1/4 c of sugar.
• Spread apples over crumbs.
• Drain raisins, reserving rum, and sprinkle raisins over apples.
• Bake in a preheated 350 degree F. oven for 15 minutes.
• Beat eggs and sugar until thick and lemon-colored.
• Stir in milk and reserved rum.
• Pour custard over apples and bake for 45 to 60 minutes at 350 degrees F.
• until custard is set.
• Cool completely before serving.
• Do NOT remove springform pan until cool.