Custards recipes

Course : Custards
Serves: 6

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Ingredients:

4 cups purple prune plums -- sliced

4 large egg yolks -- lightly beaten

1/8 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup sugar

1 cup milk

2 tablespoons fresh orange juice

2 tablespoons cream sherry

1 cup heavy cream -- whipped

1. Toss plums with 1/3 cup sugar and orange juice.

2. Combine egg yolks, 1/4 cup sugar, salt and milk in top of double boiler; cook and stir over boiling water until mixture thickens and coats spoon.

3. Remove from heat and cool.

4. Fold in sherry and whipped cream; gently fold in sliced plums.

5. Chill; serve in stemmed dessert dishes.