Apricot Souffle (Soo-Flay) 'Lightened with Air'
Ingredients
- 1/4 pound dried apricots
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 teaspoon lemon extract, or 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
- 6 candied cherries
Directions
- Wash the dried apricots and soak for three hours in suffcient water to cover them.
- Cook slowly until tender (about ten minutes) in the same water in which they were soaked.
- Press through a colander, add the sugar and cook until very thick, stirring constantly to prevent burning.
- Add salt and extract.
- Allow to cool.
- Beat the egg whites until very stiff, add the baking-powder, apricots and vanilla.
- Stir just enough to mix.
- Pour into well buttered individual tin or aluminum moulds until two-thirds full.
- Place the moulds in a pan of hot water and bake thirty-five minutes in a slow oven.
- Turn off the fire and allow the pans to remain in a warm place so that they will not fall.
- When slightly cool, remove carefully and serve as quickly as possible.
- Place whipped cream and a candied cherry on the top.
Other Information
Author: Louise Bennett Weaver, Helen Cowles LeCron
Source: A Thousand Ways To Please a Husband (1917-01-01)
Category: Dessert
Ingredients: apricot, salt, sugar, egg, lemon extract, baking powder, vanilla, cherry
Equipment: measuring cups, measuring spoons, oven, egg beater, stove
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