{"id":4145,"date":"2014-02-09T21:04:28","date_gmt":"2014-02-09T21:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/flan\/"},"modified":"2019-08-06T10:40:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T17:40:30","slug":"flan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/flan\/","title":{"rendered":"Flan"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Lightly coat the surface of four ramekins with vegetable shortening<\/li>\n<li>Sprinkle with granulated sugar, spread, then dump excess<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Caramel sauce<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 TBL water<\/li>\n<li>2\/3 cup sugar<\/li>\n<li>1 TBL Karo Syrup or Pancake Syrup<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>Heat caramel sauce on medium high heat until it caramelizes and darkens<\/li>\n<li>Swirl, do not stir, remove as soon as it starts to darken<\/li>\n<li>DO NOT WALK AWAY OR LEAVE UNATTENDED<\/li>\n<li>If you think it needs it, brush down the sides of the pan (along the top of the sugar) with plain water<\/li>\n<li>At the last minute, pour and swirl 2 TBL hot water into the flan<\/li>\n<li>Pour immediately into your ramekins<\/li>\n<li>Tip and swirl to coat bottom<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Custard mixture<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Three well-beaten eggs<\/li>\n<li>Five more egg yolks<\/li>\n<li>One orange \u2013 zest and juice<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 tsp Salt<\/li>\n<li>1 can Evaporated milk<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 can Sweetened Condensed milk<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 C fresh whole milk<br \/>\nALT:\u00a0 1.5 C whole milk and 1 C half and half<\/li>\n<li>2 TBL vanilla<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>Strain and pour raw custard mixture into ramekins over top of caramel, being careful to not displace the caramel<\/li>\n<li>Place ramekins on baking tray<\/li>\n<li>Pour in 2 cups boiling water to bottom of baking tray<\/li>\n<li>Seal lightly with foil<\/li>\n<li>Place tray on oven shelf Bake 60 minutes at 300\u00b0<\/li>\n<li>Should measure 180 degrees inside temperature<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Set on counter and let cool so that you can touch it &#8211; At least 60 minutes<\/p>\n<p>Run knife around perimeter<br \/>\nPlace plate on top of ramekin and invert<br \/>\nServe warm<\/p>\n<p>You can also let cool completely, then cover and put into refrigerator overnight to have ready to serve cold.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Here also is Grandpa&#8217;s recipe for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/basic-custard\/\">BASIC CUSTARD<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lightly coat the surface of four ramekins with vegetable shortening Sprinkle with granulated sugar, spread, then dump excess Caramel sauce 2 TBL water 2\/3 cup sugar 1 TBL Karo Syrup or Pancake Syrup Heat caramel sauce on medium high heat until it caramelizes and darkens Swirl, do not stir, remove as soon as it starts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/flan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Flan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dessert","category-world-cuisine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4145"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18643,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145\/revisions\/18643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}