Pastry Cream ( For Filling Eclairs And Fruit Flans) - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 eggs
100 g caster sugar
50 g flour
10 g custard powder
500 ml milk
vanilla pod or vanilla flavoring

Preparation

Whisk the eggs and sugar in a bowl until almost white.
Mix in the flour and custard powder.
Boil the milk in a thick based pan.
Whisk onto the egg mixture, mix well.
Return to the heat and stir to the boil. Add the vanilla.
Remove from the heat and pour into a basin. Stir occasionaly to avoid a skin forming on the surface of the pastry cream.
Cool, and use as needed.