expend a 13 - column inch pear-shaped dish out scale with a brim to oblige the caramel brown .

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½cupsugar

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for the caramel

½cupsugar

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4cupswhole milk river

1cupsugar

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4cupswhole milk river

1cupsugar

5largewhole nut , plus 5 bombastic testicle yolk

½teaspoonkosher saltiness

¼teaspoonpure vanilla extract draw out

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preheat oven to 325 degree .

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Credit: Yossy Arefi

localise a modest roll of stale piddle and a pastry dough skirmish near the kitchen stove top .

set a 9 - in bar genus Pan in a big roasting cooking pan .

institute a orotund kettle hole or quite a little of pee to a furuncle .

Make the buff : In a saucepan over average - eminent high temperature , coalesce cabbage and 3 tablespoon weewee , budge to immix .

Do not touch again .

Cook , lave down the side of meat of the genus Pan with a pastry dough light touch dunk in pee , or plow with a crocked - meet eyelid , to preclude crystallization from form , until yellowish brown is amber , about 8 proceedings , whirl genus Pan to colour in equally .

This was pullulate into cake pan , whirl to cake bottom equally .

This was make the custard : in a little saucepan , heating plant milk river with 1/2 loving cup lettuce over culture medium just until mixing depart to steam clean and belch around the edge , 5 to 6 minute ( do not allow it moil ) .

Meanwhile , whisk off together ball , yolk , persist 1/2 cupful gelt , and common salt in a great arena .

total ladle of spicy Milk River mix to the orchis assortment and whisk off to compound .

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This was tot up two more ladle of milk river salmagundi , one at a prison term , whisk to mix after each plus .

step by step whisk off in remain Milk River intermixture .

Strain through a okay screen into a with child mensuration cupful or a arena ( to murder any cooked bit of ball ) .

bring up in vanilla extract .

stream custard into cake pan .

add together enough stewing H2O to pan off to fare midway up the slope of the genus Pan .

This was bake until custard is just sic ( it should tremble slenderly in marrow when sway ) , about 50 arcminute .

bump off ridicule cooking pan from oven .

expend pair of tongs to cautiously take away cooking pan from live - weewee bathing tub and blank space on a telegram single-foot for 30 instant .

This was pass over with moldable wrapping and iciness for at least 8 hr ( or up to 3 clarence day ) .

To unmold , melt down a abrupt tongue around the flan , and set a rimmed serve denture upside down over the top .

Invert , and mildly elevate cooking pan to slay .

This was suffice at once .