Grandmas Custard Cake Food

GRANDMA'S APPLE CAKE

Steps:

• Grease and flour a 9 inch cake tin.
• Cream butter and orange rind, caster sugar and beat until light and creamy.
• Mix 1 tablespoonful of the flour with apples in a dish.
• Put eggs, milk in bowl with creamed butted.
• Add remaining flour, peel and apples to the creamed mixture; blend well with a metal spoon.
• Turn into prepared tin, sprinkle with granulated sugar.
• Cook at 350°F/Gas 4, for 40-50 minutes until golden brown.
• Serve cold as a cake or hot as a pudding with custard, cream or ice cream.

GRANDMA'S CUSTARD PIE (YELLOW PIE)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
• Scald milk (I use 1 cup half and half mixed with 1-1/2 cups whole milk). Set aside.
• In large mixing bowl slightly beat eggs, blend in sugar, salt, vanilla and almond extract.
• Gradually stir in scalded milk. Do not overbeat as this will create an unwanted foam. Pour into prepared pie shell and lightly sprinkle freshly grated nutmeg over the top.
• Bake 30-35 minutes or until knife inserted in center of pie comes out clean. Remove from oven and let cool 30-60 minutes before slicing and serving.

GRANDMA'S EGG CUSTARD PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
• Mix together eggs, sugar, salt, and vanilla. Stir well. Blend in the scalded milk. For more yellow color, add a few drops yellow food coloring.
• Brush inside bottom and sides of pie crust with egg white to help prevent a soggy crust. Pour custard mixture into piecrust. Sprinkle with nutmeg.
• Bake for 40 to 50 minutes or until a knife inserted near center comes out clean. (Please adjust according to your oven) Cool on rack.

GRANDMA'S MACARONI PUDDING

Steps:

• Cook the macaroni in salted water and drain.
• Whisk remaining ingredients together, add macaroni.
• Pour into ovenproof vessel of your choice (I use a Pyrex rectangular dish)sprinkle nutmeg on top and bake for about 45 minutes at 170°C This time can vary depending on the quantity of custard and macaroni. And of course on how firm or soft you want it to set. Note that I tend to just watch the custard, and take it out of the oven when it's set. Depends on how wet the macaroni was, how big eggs are, if I sub cream inches.
• I've made some changes to this recipe (added some eggs, increased heat and cooking time, as well as upping sugar) so hopefully people meet with more success. I posted the recipe as written in Grandma's cook book, but have since experimented and found she must be like famous chefs, never record the actual recipe, in case some one else copies!
• Hoping for feedback about how this version goes.

GRANDMA'S CUSTARD CAKE

Steps:

• In a double boiler, combine well beaten egg yolks, granulated sugar, milk and cornstarch.
• Cook slowly until thick and smooth, stirring constantly.
• Mixture will become like thick custard.
• Remove from heat, add lemon juice and rind.
• Set aside to cool.
• Cream butter and confectioner's sugar very well.
• Add cooked egg mixture and mix with mixer until incorporated.
• Beat egg whites until very stiff.
• Fold into egg& sugar mixture very lightly by hand (leave small lumps of whites).
• Lightly grease spring form pan, bottom and sides.
• With strips of fingers (round side out), line side of pan (keeping them in the strip& not tearing them apart helps hold them up).
• Line pan bottom w/ concentric circles of single layer lady fingers (flat side down), putting fingers end to end.
• Break one or two fingers to fill in gaps.
• Cover bottom lady fingers with a layer of filling.
• Arrange another layer of concentric fingers, and add another layer of filling.
• Continue until filling is all used.
• End with a final layer of fingers.
• (Usually it will not go to the very top of the side fingers.) Try and reserve 4-5 of the best fingers for top garnish.
• Place in icebox and chill thoroughly, at least 12 hours or overnight.
• To serve: Remove to cake platter when ready to serve.
• Bend the tips of the edge lady fingers down and cover top layer of fingers (to the bent-edges of the side fingers) with a layer of whipped cream.
• Cut reserved fingers in half, lengthwise, and decorate top of cake with"spokes.
• "Add cherries (blot off excess liquid to prevent red color bleeding into the whipped cream).