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Vanilla Sauce

4 servings

Ingredients

• 1 pcs small vanilla bean
• 0.5 l sweet cream or fresh milk
• 1 tsp flour
• sugar (to taste)
• 1 pinch salt
• 3.5 pcs egg yolks

Instructions

1. Infuse a small vanilla bean in half a liter of sweet cream or fresh milk for one hour.
2. Then stir in one teaspoon of flour, sugar to taste, and a pinch of salt, and let the sauce cook.
3. Finally, thicken with 3-4 egg yolks and remove the vanilla before serving.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.