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Custard, from scratch? | Rating: 4/5 | Difficulty: Hard Ever been about to make custard, for you or for tarts, but there's little/no powder? Fear not, for we have a solution! And use up your almost bad milk. Serves : 4. Prep Time: <30mins. Cook Time: 20 mins.  1: Making custard with not enough powder. I get you can cook it on a smaller scale, but that's simply not enough! Ingredients:  (For every cup of milk without custard powder, use 1 egg yolk, 1 tsp cornflour, plus 1/4 tsp vanilla essence.) Remaining custard powder, (1 tbsp for each cup of milk) 2 cups milk (Number of cups of milk without powder) Egg yolks (Number of cups of milk without powder) tsp vanilla essence 3 tbsp sugar (or to taste)  Method:  1. Tip milk in a saucepan with custard powder, cornflour, egg, and essence, then whisk. 2. Slowly heat the pan to a boil, stirring constantly so as to prevent burning or lumps. 3. Once the custard is at the desired consistency, turn the heat off