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Cold Elderflower Milk

4 servings

Ingredients

• 1.5 liter milk
• 2 umbels elderflower
• sugar (to taste)
• salt (a little)
• 1 tbsp potato flour
• 3 piece egg yolk
• egg white (for dumplings) (a little)
• sugar and cinnamon for sprinkling (a little)

Instructions

1. Boil milk with elderflower umbels for about 10 minutes and strain through a hair sieve.
2. Add sugar to taste and a little salt, thicken with potato flour stirred clear in water, and stir in the egg yolk.
3. Pour the milk into a tureen, place egg whites beaten to a foam with sugar as dumplings on top, sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon, and immediately cover the tureen so the dumplings cook through.
4. After cooling, place in the refrigerator.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.