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Lait De Poule

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France

Known as a French recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. A gill of water
  2. a tumbler a yolk of egg
  3. Sugar
Contains Eggs Read from the ingredients, not verified. Check labels.

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. Mix well in a tumbler a yolk of egg and a teaspoonfill of sugar ;
  2. then add a few drops of orange-flower water (eau de fleur d'oranger) ;
  3. pour boiling water on the whole, little by little, stirring the while, and drink warm.
  4. The quantity of water is according to taste.
  5. A gill of water to a yolk of egg makes it thick enough.
  6. It makes an excellent drink, to be taken just before retiring, for persons with cough.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Wooden spoon