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Turin Orange Dish

4 servings

Ingredients

• 4 pcs oranges
• sugar (for sprinkling) (as needed)
• 0.5 bottle apple wine
• 100 g sugar
• 6 pcs egg yolks
• 30 g potato flour
• 6 pcs egg whites
• ladyfinger slices (as needed)
• butter (for the mold) (a little)

Instructions

1. Peel and skin the oranges, slice them, remove seeds, and sprinkle generously with fine sugar.
2. After a few hours, drain them on a sieve, and vigorously whisk the collected juice with the apple wine, sugar, egg yolks, and potato flour.
3. Stir over low heat to form a thick cream, continue stirring until cooled, and fold in the beaten egg whites.
4. Line a buttered mold densely with slightly overlapping ladyfinger slices, pour in the cream, and cook the dish in a water bath for 40-50 minutes.
5. After cooling slightly, unmold, let cool completely, and top with the orange slices.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.