Pressure Cooker Grandma’s Quick Egg Custard is an Old World Classic British dessert, which is very smooth, light and airy.
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Pressure Cooker Grandma’s Quick Egg Custard
Pressure Cooker Grandma’s Quick Egg CustardThis smooth Pressure Cooker Grandma’s Quick Egg Custard is a cinch to make. It is light and airy and just sweet enough. It is a Classic Dessert with the British.
The beauty of this Pressure Cooker Grandma’s Egg Custard, is that there is no real advance planning. Surprise company, no worries.
Baked Egg Custard is delicious, but takes one hour. With the Pressure Cooker, you can mix up a batch, pop it in your Pressure Cooker and serve it to your guests in less than 30 minutes.
It is a great spur of the moment dessert. Plus, you don’t have to heat up the kitchen.
Cast of Ingredients for Pressure Cooker Grandma’s Quick Egg Custard
Super simple, with just a few ingredients. If you want different flavors, try some coconut extract, or chocolate for variety.
You can make your Pressure Cooker Grandma’s Egg Custard as sweet as you like, so if you prefer less sweet just use less sugar. Cinnamon and Nutmeg are great to use too.
Crack the eggs into a Medium Mixing Bowl. Beat with and Electric Hand Mixer until well combined.
Add Milk and Vanilla
Add the milk and vanilla and beat at a low speed until blended. Be careful not to over mix!!!
Pour Custard into a Stainless Steel Dessert Pan
Pour mixture into a Pressure Cooker safe bowl.
I use Dessert and Pressure Cooker Pans, as they fit perfectly and nest in the Pressure Cooker.
You can even cook two things at once!!
My Dessert Pans have vent holes in the cover and are 7.25 inches by about 4 inches tall.
The Stack N’ Cook Pressure Cooker Insert Pans are super popular and work really well. They sell out fast, so make sure to grab a set.
The Dessert and Pressure Cooker Pans have vent holes in one of the lids.
Make sure that your lid has holes for venting, as steam must be able to escape!
Cover Dessert Pan
The cover has two little holes, which will prevent the water that is in the bottom of the Pressure Cooker cooking pot from pooling inside the pan and allow the right amount of liquid/steam to escape.
It is important to use a trivet with short legs, so that the pan sits down low in the Pressure Cooker.
Place Dessert Pan into Pressure Cooker
The Dessert and Pressure Cooker Pans come with a locking mechanism, but I lost mine, so I made a foil sling.
You can also use the stainless steel flat bottomed insert pan (w/mini pans). They are really Spice Containers, but work well as Dessert Pans!
Another option for getting the bowl in and out of the Pressure Cooker, are Grafiti Bands, which are placed around the bowl and makes the bowl very easy to remove.
Pressure Cooker Grandma’s Quick Egg Custard
Top with Fresh Fruit, Pressure Cooker Fresh Strawberry Compote or and/or nutmeg dust. For another easy and fun dessert, try my Pressure Cooker Easy Cinnamon Raisin Rice Pudding.
For more luscious desserts, try my Pressure Cooker New York Cheesecake or my Simply Delicious Buttermilk Banana Bread recipes.
Kitchen Equipment and Essentials
- Instant Pot DUO 6 Quart
- Amco Advanced Performance 18/10 Stainless Steel Measuring Spoons
- Simply Gourmet (Dry) Stainless Steel Measuring Cups
- Anchor Hocking Glass (Liquid) Measuring Cups
- Rösle Stainless Steel Flat Whisk – a MUST have, probably my most used utensil
- Porcelain & Bamboo Salt Box with Spoon
- Cuisinart Electric Hand Mixer
- 3.5 Quart Stainless Steel Mixing Bowl
- Dessert and Pressure Cooker Pans or
- Stack N’ Cook Pressure Cooker Insert Pans
- stainless steel flat bottomed insert pan (w/mini pans) will work just as well
- Microplane Stainless Steel Zester
- Trivet/Steam Rack
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Here is the handy printable recipe:
Ingredients
- 4 cups Whole Milk or Cream
- 6 large Eggs
- 3/4 cup White Sugar
- 1 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract optional
- Tinest pinch Sea Salt
- 1/4 teaspoon Ground Cinnamon optional
- Ekovana Stainless Steel Insert Pan
Garnish
- Whole Nutmeg freshly grated
- Fresh Fruit
- Ground Cinnamon
Instructions
- In a medium bowl, beat eggs. Add milk, sugar, salt and vanilla and blend until combined. Do not over mix.
- Pour into Pressure Cooker safe bowl and cover with foil or lid. Lid/foil needs venting holes.
- Add 1.5 cups of water to Pressure Cooker cooking pot and place trivet in bottom. Place bowl on top of trivet.
- Lock lid and close Pressure Valve and cook at High Pressure for 7 minutes. When Beep sounds, allow a 10 minute natural pressure release.
- Pour off the little bet of whey that gathers on top and then top with a dusting of nutmeg, berries or other fruit, if desired.
Notes
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Pressure Cooker Grandma’s Quick Egg Custard
Making this egg custardo, I woneeded if we could use some fresh ruhbar to it?
Jill, could this be made with almond milk?
Do you do you 10 minutes NPR on the individual cups as well ?
You state 2 mins for individual cups. Do they still get the same 10 mins NPR too?
Thanks
Beth, yes. Jill
I made this in ramekins and 2 minutes was not long enough. It looked just like it did when I put it in. What should I do? I did 2 minutes with a 10 minute npr.
Hi Joyce. You could cook it longer. Jill
Hi Jill,
I am constantly looking for ways to use egg whites. Do you think this might work with just egg whites?
I have stacking stainless steel pans with a locking trivet that don’t have holes in the lid. However, the lid is not airtight. Would these work for the instant pot egg custard?
Hi Carol~
If you can, I suggest drilling two vent holes in the cover. Jill
FYI, the first set of instructions on the top half of the page is missing the sugar. You only tell us to beat the eggs and add the milk and vanilla. Luckily I followed the recipe on the bottom haha, can’t wait to see how it turns out!
I made the custard with coconut milk and no butter and reduced the sugar. It was delicious but I think I overlooked it because it wasn’t that pretty yellow color. It was more of a scrambled egg color like with a green hue. I will reduce cooking time in Instapot next time. Thanks for sharing this.
Since I only cook for myself, I made only half this recipe. Followed the directions and it came out somewhat ‘dimpled’. Now I did use a fluted bake pan as that is all I had. I covered and vented it with aluminum foil. It tasted great, like the custards my grandmother made.
Love you page…
Question on the Cooks Essentials Round Pressure Cooker Dessert pans, I have found them on a Walmart web page.. $145.00 does that sound right?
That seller is gouging. Check this page. I have a new favorite for the dessert pan and pot in pot pan.
https://staging.thisoldgal.com/favorite-pressure-cooker-accessories/
I would like to use large glass custard cups staked like I did 30 years ago in my stove top PC .. do you think that could be done ?
Do you think it would work to use a deep cake pan, like the Fat Daddio 4″ deep regular cake pan. I’d like a multipurpose pan.
Leanne~
I would use this as it is definitely a multi-purpose pan. I used mine to bake cakes too.
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https://staging.thisoldgal.com/product/B00BD0UDJE/US/tog00-20/
Jill
Thanks!
Hi Leanne, I also have the same Fat Daddio 4″ pan as you. I would like to make this, did the pans work for you?
will try this, but we will also try chocolate.
Thank you for your site and expertise!! Is there any reason this wouldn’t work with full fat coconut milk??
Sharon, that should work.
Jill
Oh my, could this be made dairy free, with almond milk? A sugar substitute (not fake) maybe coconut sugar, honey or such? Looks yummy!
My custard seems to have a lot of liquid separating from it. Is this from using 1% milk?
Jill, Aside from amount of sugar and the optional cinnamon, this is the recipe from my mom’s 1943 Watkins Cookbook and I’m anxious to make it in my IP Cooker. It’s looks like the dessert pans are out of stock at Amazon. I have custard cups. Can I cover them with foil and stack them or do I need to find a tall trivet for the top cups? I’ve followed this recipe for many years using ramekins baked in a water bath. The Watkins recipe calls for a few grains of salt.
Hi Diane~
Covered custard cups is totally fine. 🙂
Jill
Jill, I wish to make this, but my pans aldo did not have the vent holes. What do you think about using the pan and then covering with foil and just making a couple of vent holes with my with my shish kabob scewer? I have not found those pans on amazon yet.
Thanks Jill!
I made this recipe about an hour ago. Followed it fully, it turned out amazing! I used a small stainless steel mixing bowl topped with foil. Perfectly set. Definitely doing this again soon.
Hi Kathy~
I am so glad you were happy with the Custard. That makes me very happy. Thanks for letting me know.
Jill
How small of a mixing bowl, as I have nothing that fits in the 6 qt?
Just so you know,the affiliate link to the baking pans is good except for one product detail. The pans do not have steam vents. I didn’t realize it until I made the custard and the more it cooled the more the water built up. It was not good. I think, if the product had the steam vents the custard would have been perfect.
Hi Deb~
Thank you for your comment. It looks like the Amazon listing was changed from the original set of pans. If you look at the photo on the Amazon page, there are two different lids. I will change the link to one that has the little holes in the top. After cooking, the lid should be removed while cooling. Thank you so much for letting me know!
Jill
did you change the link for the lids? I would like to get the pans and want to make sure they are the right ones. the ones that show when i click on the link don’t have holes.
Hi Deanna~
I am still waiting for the company to use the other lids.
Jill