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Custard Soufflé

A historical dessert recipe from Fannie Merritt Farmer's 1910 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book.

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Gather

Ingredients

  • 3 tablespoons Butter
  • ¼ cup Flour
  • 1 cup Scalded Milk
  • 4 Eggs
  • ¼ cup Sugar

Make it

Method

  1. 1

    Melt butter, add flour, and gradually hot milk; when well thickened, pour on to yolks of eggs beaten until thick and lemon-colored, and mixed with sugar; cool, and cut and fold in whites of eggs beaten stiff and dry.

  2. 2

    Turn into buttered pudding-dish, and bake from thirty to thirty-five minutes in slow oven; take from oven and serve at once,—if not served immediately it is sure to fall; serve with Creamy or Foamy Sauce.

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Source & rights

Where this recipe comes from

Custard Soufflé, from The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1910).

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Historical measurements, equipment, temperatures and terminology may differ from modern kitchen practice.