Baked Apples With Custard Sauce

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 375 F.Peel apples halfway down and core. Toss raisins with water, sugar and breadcrumbs. Fill center of each apple with raisins and place in a baking dish. Sprinkle tops of apples with lemon juice.
2. Crisp Topping:Blend oats, sugar, flour, cinnamon, salt and ginger. Cut in butter till topping takes on a dense crumbly texture.
3. Press generous amounts of crumble on top of each apple.
4. Bake apples for 20-30 min, till tender (check by inserting a skewer or possibly toothpick).
5. Custard Sauce:Have ready a strainer over a small bowl before beginning. Heat cream with seeds from vanilla bean and scraped vanilla bean pod till it comes to a gentle simmer.
6. In bowl, whisk together egg yolk and sugar. Whisking constantly add in a little of the warm cream to the egg mix, and blend completely till all the cream has been added.
7. Return cream to medium-low heat and stir, using a wooden spoon till sauce thickens and coats the spoon when lifted.
8. Remove from heat and strain immediately.
9. Cover and refrigeratetill ready to serve.
10. To Assemble:To serve pour the vanilla custard over the baked apple. For an extra kick, steep your raisins for the center of the apples in 1 1/2 Tbsp. brandy or possibly rum!