Family-Style Crème Brûlée

Name: Family-Style Crème Brûlée
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 4 cups, heavy cream, chilled; 2/3 cup, granulated sugar; pinch, table salt; 1 , vanilla bean halved lengthwise; 12 , large egg yolks; 8 - 12 teaspoons, turbinado sugar or Demerara sugar

Desserts or Baked Goods
French
Make Ahead
Puddings, Custards, Gelatins, & Souffles
Holiday

Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 2001

Lots of yolks, turbinado sugar, an instant-read thermometer, and a final chill are the keys to perfect créme brûlée.

SERVES 8

TIME 1½ hours, plus 2½ to 3 hours cooling and 4½ hours chilling

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