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Sweet Cream Flour Dish

4 servings

Ingredients

• 50 g flour (sifted)
• 0.25 l sweet cream
• 2 pcs eggs (whole)
• 75 g butter
• 3 pcs egg yolks
• 100 g sugar
• lemon zest (grated, from 1 lemon) (a little)
• 3 pcs egg whites (beaten)

Instructions

1. Stir the flour, sweet cream, and whole eggs over a gentle heat.
2. Continuously stir butter, egg yolks, sugar, and grated lemon zest, add the still lukewarm dough, and stir for another half hour until the mixture is frothy.
3. Finally, fold in the stiff egg whites, pour the mixture into a mold, and bake in a moderately hot oven for one hour.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.