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Strawberry Cake with Vanilla Cream

4 servings

Ingredients

• puff pastry (as needed)
• strawberries (ripe, sugared) (as needed)
• 200 g sugar
• 8 pcs eggs
• vanilla (ground with sugar) (a piece)
• 0.5 tablespoons wheat powder (or 10 g agar-agar)

Instructions

1. Bake the puff pastry and prepare the cream as follows: Whisk the cream with the binding agent and egg yolks, add sugar and vanilla, and beat over moderate heat until just before boiling.
2. Remove quickly from heat, whisk in the foamed egg whites, and continue beating until the cream is no longer hot.
3. Carefully wash the strawberries, drain them in a sieve, and sprinkle generously with sugar.
4. Before serving, stir them into the cream and fill the cake to the brim.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.