Apple Custard

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Don't let all of these steps fool you, this is really an easy recipe and not very difficult at all to make. But when you are done it will look like you went to your local desert guru and bought this delicious dish. You can even prepare and make this the night before and have it all ready for your after dinner treate the next evening.

Ingredients:

• 2/3 Tablespoon butter
• 1/2 Apple, peeled,cored and cut into 8 crescent shaped pieces
• 1 1/2 Eggs
• 1/8 Cup sugar
• Pinch salt
• 2/3 Cup milk (or for richer custard use half and half)
• 1/3 Teaspoon vanilla
• Nutmeg
• 2 Custard cups

Directions:

• Melt butter (or margarine) in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add apple slices and saute for 1 minute.
• Reduce heat to medium-low, cover and cook 1 minute longer.
• Reduce heat to low, uncover and let apples cook until light brown (3-5 minutes). Set aside.
• Preheat oven to 325-degrees F.
• Butter the custard cups.
• In a bowl, whisk eggs until thick. Add sugar and salt and beat well.
• Blend in milk (or half and half) and vanilla.
• Pour custard into prepared custard cups.
• Set custard cups into large shallow baking pan.
• Add enough boiling water to pan so water comes up halfway up sides of cups.
• Bake for 1 hour or until a knife inserted in center of custard comes clean. (If using the casserole dish bake for 1 1/2 hours).
• Remove cups from water and let cool to room temperature.
• Top each custard with 4 (reserved) overlapping apple slices.
• Refrigerate until cold or overnight.
• Sprinkle with nutmeg before serving.

Recommendations:
As a starter we recommend the apple spinach salad.
As a main dish we recommend the apple pork chops.
As side dishes, we recommend the pan seared asparagus and the maple sweet potatoes.

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