Ingredients

• 1/2 liter milk
• 1 egg plus 2 yolks
• 75 g. sugar
• 15 g. corn starch (2 level T.)

• 1 stick of cinnamon
• 1 skin of a lemon
• 1 vanilla bean

Directions

1. Boil the milk.
2. Steep the cinnamon, vanilla, and lemon skin in boiling milk for 15 min.
3. Work together the eggs, sugar and starch until whitening of the mixture.
4. Pour, whipping rapidly, the boiling milk into the egg mixture.
5. Put creme over low heat and mix regularly with a wooden spoon until bubbles appear.
6. Creme should thicken slowly.
7. Transfer to a bowl and serve cold.
8. Or transfer to individual custard dishes and melt sugar on top with a hot custard iron or a torch.