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Light Flour Dish

4 servings

Ingredients

• 0.5 l milk
• 50 g fine flour
• 100 g butter
• 5 pcs egg yolks
• lemon zest (grated, from 1 lemon) (a little)
• sugar (to taste)
• 5 pcs egg whites (beaten)

Instructions

1. Bake the milk with the fine flour over a gentle heat.
2. Cream the butter, then add the egg yolks, grated lemon zest, and sugar to taste.
3. Gradually fold in the cooled dough, and finally the beaten egg whites.
4. Bake the dish in the mold for one hour.
5. Serve with vanilla, chaudeau, or fruit sauce.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.