Flan à la Ata Recipe
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Ingredients: 4 cups milk
Large piece of vanilla bean
Lime rind (or orange rind)
7 eggs
7 egg yolks
12 ounces sugar (3/4 cup)
1 to 2 teaspoons vanilla
Caramel
½ cup sugar
¼ cup water
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Directions:Boil milk with a large piece of vanilla bean and strip of lime or orange rind. Cool. Beat 7 whole eggs and 7 egg yolks with sugar and add cooled milk. Stir well and add vanilla.
Caramel
Bring sugar and water to a boil over high heat in a tube pan on top of store, stirring until the sugar is completely dissolves. (Ata always used a pan that looked more like a large dog's stainless water bowl!) Reduce heat to moderate and cook briskly without stirring, but gently tipping the pan back and forth until the syrup turns a deep golden brown. (This may take 10 minutes.) Let cool. Strain custard onto caramel. Bake at 350° for 1 hour and 45 minutes to 2 hours. |
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Notes: This is a Cuban or Spanish recipe that was my first husband's grandmothers specialty. It is very rich and wonderful. She is now almost 100 and can no longer cook. We try to follow her directions, and though the recipe turns out well, it never tastes quite as good as when Ata made it. I usually serve it with fresh orange segments and a dollop of whipped cream.
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