Frenchdessert
Pastry Cream
From A guide to modern cookery, 1909
Serves 7
Can be flavored as desired.
Presented as published in 1909. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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Ingredients
Method
As published
This recipe was extracted from A guide to modern cookery (1909) by A. Escoffier, page 407. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
PASTRY CREAM Mix one lb. of powdered sugar with four oz. of flour and twelve egg-yolks, and dilute with one quart of boiling milk. Cook this cream, stirring it continually the while; and, as soon as it boils, add to it a few drops of orange-flower water and four gelatine leaves, softened in cold water. Boil the cream a few minutes; take it off the fire, and, while stirring it briskly, carefully combine with it twelve egg-whites
Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.