8.09.2007

Flan

This recipe is a culinary magic trick. The finished product appears to be extremely impressive, but the process is simple beyond belief. If we were real magicians, we wouldn't reveal our secrets, but I only know one card trick and the only magic Alex knows is from playing Magic the Gathering, so I think we are not so bound by rules of the trade. Anyway, if we can do this, you can do it.

Ingredients:
12 egg yolks
1 can sweetened condensed milk
2 cans evaporated milk
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup sugar

Instructions:
Preheat oven to 375. Wisk eggs together with milks and vanilla. In a saucepan, heat the sugar until it melts into a liquid. Divide the liquid evenly between two rectangular loaf pans (3 in. x 9 in., or something in that vicinity). Pour mixture evenly over the sugar in the two pans. Cover pans with in foil, and place them in a larger baking plan or pyrex, and add about a 1/2 inch of water to the bottom of the dish. Bake for 1 hour.