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Linzer Apple Dish

4 servings

Ingredients

• 100 g butter
• 1 piece egg (hard-boiled, yolk)
• 4 piece egg yolks (raw)
• 100 g sugar
• 100 g rusk (crushed)
• lemon zest (grated, from 1 lemon) (a little)
• apples (cooked into a purée) (8-10 pieces)
• 4 piece egg whites (beaten)

Instructions

1. Cream the butter, then gradually mix in the yolk of the hard-boiled egg, the raw egg yolks, and the sugar.
2. Add crushed rusk, grated lemon zest, and apples cooked into a purée.
3. After stirring for one hour, fold in the beaten egg whites.
4. Bake the dish for one and a quarter hours at moderate heat and serve without sauce, unmoulded.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.