Image via WikipediaMy wife cooked for our Christmas and New year dinner simple dishes, but which are not really simple to cook. These are our native dishes, and so native that wherever Filipinos go, whichever continent they land their feet on, the food follows.Here we are in Singapore at the moment, and she made leche flan (egg custard). We've seen 2 prevailing recipes, the one as the standard method, and the other with honey. So she tried the one with honey.
It turned out that the honey should not be mixed with the base custard, but with the topping only. At any rate, what she made was super!
Of course, others may use coffee to put in a bitter taste that will balance the otherwise all-sweet custard taste. And on the other hand, some will use lemon rind instead of using coffee. Well, the coffee is just for the topping, while the lemon rind goes to the base custard mix.She used lemon rind, and she scraped more than the usual. I could say I liked what she did. it is like eating a mentholated custard - sweet, bitter, with a bit of a kick left in the mouth.
And why do some include the egg white? As I've seen it done in the provinces, it is to
1. make the custard firmer; using only egg yolk makes the custard very soft, which some desire, of course.
2. produce more leche flan. I mean, the egg white is about 1/4 or 2/3 of the whole egg, so if you add that, you'll end up having leche flan by 1/4 or 2/3 more than what you'd get when you use only egg yolks.So that's all about it! Enjoy!
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