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Turiddu’s recipes – Custard Grandma Cristina’s way

Custard Grandma Cristina’s way

A citrus-flavoured cream, delicate and delicious. Perfect for filling cakes and tarts, but also to be eaten by the spoonful. Just for you, the original recipe, taken from Nonna Cristina’s notes.

Ingredients

  • 1/2 litre of milk;
  • 90 g of cornstarch;
  • 3 egg yolks;
  • 150 g sugar;
  • Peels of 1/2 orange;
  • Peels of 1/2 lemon.

Procedure

Boil the milk with the peels for about 2 minutes.

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We start again from the earth: Turiddu’s vegetable garden

Me Cumpari Turiddu today also becomes a farmer

The scent of aromatic herbs, the warmth of the sun on the skin, the smell of fruit ripening on the trees. The countryside always contains so much poetry. Poetry full of memories and metaphors, particularly strong symbolic images, especially in this period.

In this time of apparent stasis, we have channelled our energies to finally make a project that had long remained only a sprout bloom.

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