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Lemon or Orange Dish

4 servings

Ingredients

• 1 piece lemon zest (grated)
• 200 g sugar
• 1 cup cream
• 75 g flour
• 4 tbsp cream (cold, for mixing)
• 100 g butter
• lemon juice (from 1 lemon) (a little)
• 4 pieces egg yolks
• 4 pieces egg whites (beaten)
• sugar (for sprinkling) (a little)
• lemon juice (for drizzling) (a little)

Instructions

1. Grate the zest of one lemon onto the sugar, crush, and sift.
2. Bring one cup of cream to a boil, then add the flour mixed with cold cream, sugar, butter, and the juice of one lemon.
3. Bring everything to a boil a few times and let it cool.
4. Gradually stir in the egg yolks and then the beaten egg whites.
5. Pour the mixture into a greased and floured dish and bake for three-quarters of an hour at moderate heat.
6. Before serving, sprinkle with sugar, drizzle with lemon juice, and return the dish to the oven for a few minutes to glaze.
7. This dish can also be prepared with oranges in the same manner.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.