Vanilla Pastry Cream

🧂 Ingredients

• ½ cup milk (divided)
• ½ cup whole/heavy/whipping cream
• ¼ cup granulated sugar
• 1 large egg
• 2¼ tablespoons cornstarch (sifted)
• ½ teaspoon vanilla
• 1 pinch salt

Instructions

• 1 Rinse a medium pot with cold water before adding the liquid, this keeps the milk
  from burning and sticking to the bottom of the pot.
• 2 To the pot add ⅓ cup + 1 tablespoon of milk (90 grams), the cream and sugar,
  bring to a boil, stirring occasionally.
• 3 In a medium bowl whisk together the egg, corn starch and remaining milk.
• 4 Add half the boiling milk mixture to the egg mixture and whisk to combine, then
  pour into the remaining milk mixture in the pot, with the vanilla and salt.
  Bring it back to a boil and stir constantly until thickened, it won't take long
  to thicken. Pour into a clean bowl, cover with plastic wrap, make sure it
  touches the top of cream (this keeps the cream from developing a skin).
  Refrigerate until cooled completely, approximately 2 hours. Enjoy!

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