Mille Feuille

Ingredients

• 1 packet puff pastry
• 0.5 cup flour
• 0.5 cup corn flour
• 4 glasses milk
• 4 eggs
• Lemon rind
• 0.75 cup sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla essence
• 0.5 pint fresh cream
• Icing sugar

Method

1. 1

   Roll cut puff pastry from packet and cut into 4 pieces of the same size

2. 2

   Bake at 180°C till golden brown

3. 3

   Scald milk (before boiling) - not all, keep some behind to dilute flour and cornflour

4. 4

   Add sugar to milk

5. 5

   Add sifted flour and corn flour and boil until thick. Then remove from heat.

6. 6

   Beat eggs and add slowly to milk mixture.

7. 7

   Put back on stove, add vanilla and lemon rind

8. 8

   Bring to boil

9. 9

   Cool custard filling

10. 10

    In baking tray put 1 piece of puff pastry 1/3 of custard on top.

11. 11

    Continue doing this until all custard is used.

12. 12

    Beat 1/2 pint fresh cream and put on top of cooled custard

13. 13

    Crumble last pastry piece and sprinkle on top

14. 14

    Sprinkle icing sugar on top

15. pastry
16. custard filling
17. 15

    Place aside to cool