James Martin served up delicious Creme Patissiere and Creme Legere with homemade custard on James Martin’s Saturday Morning.

The ingredients for the Custard are: 8 egg yolks, 75g caster sugar, 400ml milk, 400ml double cream and 1 vanilla pod, seeds scraped out.

For the Creme Pâtissiere: 500ml full fat milk, 5 egg yolks, 125g caster sugar, 50g cornflour, 1 tbs vanilla bean paste and 250ml double cream.

To turn into Creme Legere: 500ml double cream, whipped.

See recipes by James in his book titled: Complete Home Comforts: Over 150 delicious comfort-food classics available from Amazon now.