Apple charlotte with thyme custard

Ingredients:

6 braeburn apples, peeled, cored and more or less chopped
2 entire braeburns cored
60 gm (2½ oz) caster sugar
Juice of half of a lemon
three tbsp water
150 gm (5 ounces) butter
10 slices bread, crusts eliminated
Custard

200 ml (6 fl. oz. / ¼ pint) double cream
2 hundred ml (6 fl. ounces / ¼ pint) complete (full cream) milk
2 sprigs of thyme
6 loose variety egg yolks
75 gm (3 oz) caster sugar
prepare dinner's notes
Oven temperatures are for traditional; if using fan-pressured (convection), lessen the temperature by means of 20˚C. | We use Australian tablespoons and cups: 1 teaspoon equals 5 ml; 1 tablespoon equals 20 ml; 1 cup equals 250 ml. | All herbs are sparkling (unless distinctive) and cups are lightly packed. | All vegetables are medium length and peeled, except designated. | All eggs are 55-60 g, except specific.

Instructions:

For the charlottes, preheat oven to one hundred eighty°C / 350°F / gas mk four.

location apples, sugar, lemon juice and water into saucepan at the side of 25g / 1oz of the butter. bring to the boil then reduce warmth and simmer until soft.

soften the ultimate butter in a pan, and with a pastry brush butter 6 ramekins.

Slice the closing 2 apples thinly and arrange like a fan at the lowest of each ramekin, so as when turned out they shape the pinnacle.

reduce slices of bread in half of then into 4 slices like hands. Dip every finger in butter and region around facet of ramekin; maintain a few fingers back for the lid. Spoon in apple mix and press down nicely; pinnacle with the ultimate bread. region in oven for 25 minutes. get rid of from oven and cool barely. cautiously turn out.

For the custard, whisk the egg yolks and sugar in a bowl.

warmness milk, cream and thyme in a non-stick pan till at scalding point. Pour milk combination onto egg yolks slowly whisking the complete time. Pour mixture back inside the pan and heat lightly, stirring all the time, till the mixture thickens and coats the lower back of a spoon.

bypass aggregate through a great sieve

Serve warm with the apple charlottes.