{"id":4798,"date":"2014-10-25T03:08:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T03:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/?p=4798"},"modified":"2020-04-16T12:31:54","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T19:31:54","slug":"healthy-custard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/healthy-custard\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthy Custard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, this could more properly be called pastry cream<br \/>\nThe entire recipe is called Mille Feuille<\/p>\n<p>Poke puffed pastry with a fork so that it does not completely puff up during baking<br \/>\nBake puffed pastry 400\u00b0 for about 15-20 minutes . Or until browned<\/p>\n<p>Heat two cups half\/half<br \/>\nAdd 1 c sugar<br \/>\nPinch of salt<br \/>\nBring mixture to simmer<\/p>\n<p>Beat two eggs<br \/>\nMix in 1\/4 C cream or half\/half<br \/>\nAdd 1 TBL cornstarch<\/p>\n<p>Temper hot milk mixture into eggs<br \/>\nCombine into larger pot<br \/>\nStir continually until it turns to custard<br \/>\nAdd butter and vanilla<br \/>\nCover cream with plastic wrap so that film does not form<br \/>\nPlastic wrap should be molded down to touch the custard so that no air remains<\/p>\n<p>When you are ready to serve, and only then, finish the recipe:<br \/>\nCut puff pastry into three equal strips<br \/>\nSpread pastry cream over top of TWO puff pastry strips<br \/>\nSpread fondant (sugar icing) over top of the third<br \/>\nPipe chocolate line fondant over top<br \/>\nScore to create alternate lines (see photos)<\/p>\n<p>Cut top piece, and place on other two strips<br \/>\nSlice down into pieces<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/image4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/image4.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignright size-medium aiif4799\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/image5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/image5.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignright size-medium aiif4800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alternately, pipe whipped cream over top and then add fresh fruit on top<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, this could more properly be called pastry cream The entire recipe is called Mille Feuille Poke puffed pastry with a fork so that it does not completely puff up during baking Bake puffed pastry 400\u00b0 for about 15-20 minutes . Or until browned Heat two cups half\/half Add 1 c sugar Pinch of salt &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/healthy-custard\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Healthy Custard&#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":[1,210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grandpas-private-collection","category-beatitudes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4798","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=4798"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18357,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4798\/revisions\/18357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}