Three centuries of the same good idea
Custard under burnt sugar appears in French, English, and Catalan cookbooks going back to the 1690s — everyone claims it, everyone's right to want it. The name that stuck is French: burnt cream.
The point has never changed: a cold vanilla custard, a hot caramel lid, and the single most satisfying crack in gastronomy.
Solo, or as our trio for the table that can't choose.