The Ultimate Homemade Portuguese Version of Crème Brûlée

Thought I would bring you a deliciously firm favourite dessert in this country which is a Portuguese version of Crème Brûlée called here Leite Creme Queimado.  It is a dessert that can be made simply and quickly and doesn’t cost too much.

• 1/2 litre of semi-fat milk
• 1 heaped soupspoon Cornflour
• 4 to 5 soupspoons sugar
• 1 slice of lemon rind
• 1 cinnamon stick

Serves 4

Dissolve the cornflour in a little cold milk.  Join the rest of the ingredients together with the cornflour mixture and cook over a low heat stirring all the time until it thickens.  Once thickened remove lemon rind and cinnamon stick and pour out on to a flat plate and allow to cool slightly.

Sprinkle sugar over the top of the Leite Creme and burn with an electric burning iron (the blow torch burner doesn’t do such a good job as the electric one – trust me!)

Delectable, served slightly warm with the hard sugar crust and accompanied by a glass of chilled 20 Year Old Tawny Port!