LEMON CUSTARD WITH FRUIT TOPPING
Ingredients
- 4 each eggs
- 0.5 cup sugar
- 3 tbsp lemon juice
- 2 tsp grated lemon peel
- 0 tsp vanilla
- 0.3 tsp salt, optional
- 3 cup skim or low-fat milk, heated until very hot
Instructions
- 1
Sliced fresh strawberries • Jam, jelly or fruit preserves • Lemon peel strips, optional • Fresh mint leaves, optional In medium bowl, beat together eggs, sugar, juice, grated peel, vanilla and salt, if desired, until well blended.
- 2
Stir in milk.
- 3
Place 6 (6-ounce) spray-coated custard cups in large baking pan.
- 4
Pour egg mixture into custard cups.
- 5
Place pan on rack in preheated 350°F oven.
- 6
Pour very hot water into pan to within 1/2 inch of top of custards.
- 7
Bake until knife inserted near center comes out clean, about 25 to 30 minutes.
- 8
Remove promptly from hot water.
- 9
Cool on wire rack about 5 to 10 minutes.
- 10
Serve warm or chilled.
- 11
Invert onto individual plates.
- 12
Arrange sliced strawberries around each custard.
- 13
Spoon jam on top of each custard.
- 14
Garnish with lemon peel strips and mint leaves, if desired.