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Strawberry Dish

4 servings

Ingredients

• 100 g sugar (for the syrup)
• 100 g strawberries (cleaned, dry)
• 200 g roll (crust removed, sliced)
• 2 glass white wine (hot)
• 100 g butter
• 4 pcs egg yolks
• 100 g sugar (for the egg mixture)
• 4 pcs egg whites (whipped)
• Chaudau sauce (for serving) (as needed)

Instructions

1. Boil the sugar until clear, add the cleaned, dry strawberries, swirl well, and let cool.
2. Grate the crust from the roll, slice it, and pour hot white wine over it.
3. Cream butter, egg yolks, and sugar until quite frothy, mix with the soaked roll, fold in the whipped egg whites, and finally mix in the cooled strawberries.
4. Fill the mixture into a buttered, paper-lined mold and bake in a water bath.
5. Unmold when serving and serve with Chaudau sauce.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.