Creme Anglaise - cooking recipe

Ingredients

300 ml milk
30 g sugar
3 egg yolks
1 ml vanilla essence

Preparation

Bring the milk to the boil in a saucepan.
Mix the egg yolks and sugar together in a basin.
Slowly add the boiling milk to the egg mixture and stir well.
Return the mixture to the saucepan and cook over a moderate heat, stirring continuously with a wooden spatula.
When the mixture coats the spatula, remove from the heat and continue to stir for 2 minutes, then transfer to another container. Do not allow the mixture to boil.
If it does, it will curdle because there is no starch in this recipe.
Stir in a few drops of vanilla essence, strain and use as required.