Flan

Here is the first of my mother's recipes.  Her flan is to die for.  It is one of our favorite desserts and never lasts long.  Friends request this dish for parties.  I have had many version's of flan but mom's is my favorite.  It is light and not as dense as many flans end up.  I hope your family enjoys this recipe as much as mine has.

Ingredients

• 6 eggs- 3 complete and 3 yolks
• 1 can of sweetened condensed milk
• 1 cup of sugar
• separate from the other =sugar 1/2 cup
• 1 tbsp water
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 and 1/4 cup milk
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Directions

• Place the sweetened condensed milk, milk, the egg whites and 3 complete eggs, 1/2 cup sugar, and vanilla in the blender and blend well.
• Put the 1 cup of sugar and 1 tbsp water in a small casserole and boil until its light brown.
• Cover  the bottom of the mold (bowl that can go into a pressure cooker or double boiler) with the caramel. 
• Pour mixture from blender on top of caramel in the mold.
•  If you are going to use a pressure cooker cover the mold very tightly with aluminum foil.  Add water to the pressure cooker, about two cups of water, to create a double boiler.  Let cook in pressure cooker for 20 minutes.
• Let cool before removing from pressure cooker.
• Put mold in refrigerator until the flan is completely cooled.  Then flip mold over onto serving platter and serve.