MAKING FLAN! A Cuban Julia Child.

   MAKING FLAN!

                                                                             
           

  Making  A Lazy Man's or (Woman's)  Flan!   When cool, tip over into pie plate. I disconnect it from pan by rubbing a butter-knife around it.

   YOU'LL NEED ...    1 can evaporated milk

                                   1 can sweetened condensed milk

                                    5 eggs (works with 4 but I use 5)

                                                                  1/2 cup of sugar   

                                    2 tablespoons of Mexican Vanilla (the

                            real thing!) (of course you'll have to go get

                                 it.  Good excuse ... take a CRUISE!)

                                    1/4 cup of sugar  / metal pan (for me it

                                     works best ... have broken glass ones)

                                 

     Procedure:  In medium size bowl mix the first four ingredients.

                  In metal pan, put in your 1/4 cup of sugar, on low heat wait till it melts and turns gold or

                     medium brown. Do NOT LET IT BURN. Don't answer any phones or check emails  while doing this ... only disaster follows!

     Pour mixture of milk etc. into your melted golden brown sugar pan. Place this round pan with   mixture inside a rectangular cake pan. Some people call it the lasagna pan.  

 Fill the cake pan  with water. Up 1/2 to the level of your metal round pan with ingredients. The placing one pan within another and then surrounding it by water is called in Cuba, Al Baño De Maria, To the style of bath that Maria took, (whatever that meant. If you find out what that means tell me. Don't fill it so much that when it bakes it boils and flows into your FLAN!

Put a glass top on your Flan to be! If not, might burn on top, or not done in the middle! Glass helps you to observe it.

 Bake in oven at 375* if you got a hot oven bring it down to 350* Bake an hour. Sometimes depending on oven, bake more. The way to know if your flan is done is: Take a butter-knife and

stick it into the middle of your flan lightly. If it comes out clean you got yourself a flan!

                                     
                                           Metal pan works for me. In the family for years.    

                                                         Many happy flan memories!                   

                                           The cake pan above was my mother-in-law's pan.
                                       It's old but it's here to stay. Many good memories there too!