Recipes of the Month

TOCINILLO DE CIELO “Dessert”

Ingredients:

• 6 egg yolks
• 9 oz sugar
• 7 fl. oz water

For the caramel:

• 3 tablespoons sugar
• 1 tablespoons water

Preparation
Put the sugar in a saucepan with the water and heat until the syrup goes golden brown. Cover a baking tin evenly and put to one side. Put the sugar and water in an earthenware dish and heat until the syrup goes stringy. Beat the egg yolks and slowly add the syrup, stirring with sticks. Strain and pour into the caramelized tin. Cook in bain-marie in the oven at 150º for around 20 minutes. When the tocino “dessert” has set, remove from the oven, leave to cool and take it out of the tin.