Mita's Milk Pudding

Ingredients

• 1 L milk
• 5 oz sugar
• 1 piece vanilla
• 1 lemon, zested (outer skin)
• 2 sticks cinnamon
• 7 oz starch (almidón), dissolved in milk
• 7 egg yolks, well beaten

Instructions

1. Boil the milk with sugar, vanilla, lemon zest and cinnamon sticks.
2. Strain, return to heat, and stir in the starch dissolved in milk; boil ten minutes.
3. Cool, then beat in the seven yolks.
4. Return briefly to heat, beating, then pour into the mold to cool.