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Mousseline Pudding

A historical recipe from A guide to modern cookery, by Escoffier, A. (Auguste) (1907).

A historical recipe

A guide to modern cookery, by Escoffier, A. (Auguste) (1907). Project Gutenberg eBook #71395.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

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From A guide to modern cookery, by Escoffier, A. (Auguste) (1907). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #71395 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71395). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. Work four oz.
  2. of butter and four oz.
  3. of powdered sugar to a pomade, and add the yolks of ten eggs, one by one;
  4. meanwhile stirring the preparation.
  5. Set the latter on a moderate fire until it veneers the withdrawn spoon;
  6. then immediately add the whites of seven eggs beaten to a stiff froth.
  7. Pour the whole into a deep, buttered border-mould, which only half fill, in view of the subsequent expansion of the preparation while cooking.
  8. Poach in a bain-marie for about thirty minutes, and let the pudding stand for ten minutes before turning it out.
  9. As an accompaniment serve a light Sabayon or a fruit sauce.