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The Catalan preparation published by Turisme de Barcelona uses milk with cinnamon and lemon peel, egg yolks, sugar and starch. We develop it here for four small dishes, using a kitchen blowtorch for the sugar layer.
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Four small shallow dishes of crema catalana with a thin amber sugar crust.
A spoon breaks through the thin caramel crust to reveal soft pale-yellow custard underneath.