Three egg-yolk custard

[mific]

I love custard and when I make my low-carb gf bread rolls I end up with three yolks, so...

Ingredients
3 egg yolks
1.5 cups water
0.5 cup of cream
3 tbsp trim milk powder
1 tbsp cornflour or potato flour 
sugar or stevia to taste (about 2-3 tbsp sugar)
pinch of salt.
1 tsp vanilla essence or extract added after cooking

Mix well (I whisk it a bit) and cook in a saucepan on stovetop a few minutes, stirring (e.g. with a wooden spoon) until it thickens - don't leave it, you have to stir until it bubbles. Mix in the vanilla. Dish up into a couple of containers and either have it warm, or refrigerate - I prefer it cool as I'm weird and like the skin on top. Serves two restrained people or one hungry one. Five minutes prep and cooking, longer to cool it. Good by itself or as a sauce for stodgy English type desserts like apple crumble or steamed treacle pudding. Great on trifles. 
By the way, I’m a Kiwi and we have great milk powder here, and I think the custard’s slightly better made with it. But you can definitely just use 1.5 cups of full-cream or low-fat milk as such, instead of the water and milk powder.
I haven’t tried the custard recipe with non-dairy milk though, so no idea if that would work.

Comments

Complementary recipes are wonderful

[jesse_the_k]

I avoid recipes with separated eggs because I don't know what to do with the other half. THANK YOU.

in this case cornflour = corn starch

[runpunkrun]

Yes! Those darned separated eggs! I'll eat the whites, but the yolks just slide around sadly in the fridge until they get thrown out. Good thinking having a ready recipe to use them in.

Also a note for those who don't speak British English: In this case cornflour = corn starch.

Re: in this case cornflour = corn starch

[ironymaiden]

and what is trim milk powder?

Re: in this case cornflour = corn starch

[mific]

I’m a Kiwi and we have great milk powder here, and I think the custard’s slightly better made with it. But you can definitely just use 1.5 cups of full-cream or low-fat milk as such, instead of the water and milk powder. I’ll edit that in.
I haven’t tried the custard recipe with non-dairy milk though, so I have no idea if that would work.

Re: in this case cornflour = corn starch

[runpunkrun]

A quick Google suggests it's skim milk powder--low-fat or no-fat. Am I right mific?

Re: in this case cornflour = corn starch

[mific]

Yes, low fat milk powder would be the same. But full fat would be fine too - the low fat type is just what I routinely have at home. As in my reply above, you can also use milk, not milk powder and water.

[esteefee]

this sounds totally nummy, than you. and I love skin too!