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Russian Cream Dessert

9 servings

Ingredients

• 0.5 l Cream
• 100 g Sugar
• 10 pcs Egg yolks
• 35 g Gelatin (dissolved)
• 75 g Raisins (cleaned)
• 0.5 glass Rum
• 0.5 l Whipped cream
• Ladyfingers (as needed)

Instructions

1. Beat cream, sugar, and egg yolks over heat until a cream forms, remove from heat and mix with the dissolved gelatin.
2. Let cool over ice, beating constantly, while stirring in the cleaned raisins and rum.
3. Once the cream is cold, fold in the whipped cream and fill the mixture into a mold first lined with parchment paper, then tightly with ladyfingers, and let it set.
4. When serving, invert and garnish with ladyfingers.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.