Key facts
- Alternative names
- English Cream, Drinking Custard
- Type
- Custard
- Place of origin
- France
- Main ingredients
- Sugar , egg yolks , milk , vanilla
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- food
- Subclass of
- custard
- Country of origin
- France
- Material used
- sugar
- Image
- Creme anglaise p1050168.jpg
- Has use
- English cuisine
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- Commons category
- Crème anglaise
- cuisine
- English cuisine
- native label
- crème anglaise
- fabrication method
- cooking
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Encyclopedic overview
Crème anglaise over a slice of pain d'épices
Crème anglaise ( French: [kʁɛm‿ɑ̃glɛz]; French for 'English cream'), custard sauce, pouring custard, or simply custard is a light, sweetened pouring custard from French cuisine, used as a dessert cream or sauce. It is a mix of sugar, egg yolks, and hot milk usually flavoured with vanilla.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “crème anglaise” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.