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You'll eat it in France, more than you probably should, but few know: It all started in Italy.

Ingredients

  • 140 g. flour
  • 300 g. butter cut into pieces
  • 130 g. water
  • 14. g salt
  • 310 g. flour
  • 90 g. butter
  • 340 g. whole milk
  • 340 g. heavy whipping cream
  • 1 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 135 g. sugar
  • 60 g. egg yolk
  • 1 egg
  • 40 g. corn starch

Directions

Step by step

  1. Make a 25 by 25cm dough using butter and flour for the beurre manié, and let it rest for 2 hours in the fridge;
  2. Do the same thing for the détrempe;
  3. Wrap the beurre manié around the détrempe at a 45 degree angle (4-end star shape); make a tour double; and let rest for another 2 hours;
  4. Make a second tour double and let rest for another 2 hours;
  5. Make a single tour and let rest overnight;
  6. Spread on pan and cook with weights for 1 hour at 320 degrees;
  7. Mix milk, cream and vanilla; make your caramel with the 100g of sugar; warm your milk separately and verse in 3-steps in your caramel;
  8. Mix eggs, yolk, sugar and cornstarch and slowly mix into the caramel-milk mix; bring all to a boil stirring constantly.
  9. Verse the custard into the pan, and cook for 15 minutes at 338 degrees.

Ingredients by component

    Beurre manié

  • 140g of flour
  • 300g of butter cut into pieces
  • Détrempe

  • 130g of water
  • 14g of salt
  • 310 of flour
  • 90g of butter
  • Custard

  • 340g of whole milk
  • 340g of heavy whipping cream
  • 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
  • 100g of sugar and 35g of sugar
  • 60g of egg yolk
  • 1 egg
  • 40g of corn starch