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Crème Saint-Honoré

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Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Difficulty: medium

Categories: Dessert

Tags: french, medium difficulty, recipes for dessert, recipes using egg white, recipes using lemon juice, recipes using white sugar, recipes without cooking time, recipes without servings

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3ACr%C3%A8me_Saint-Honor%C3%A9)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3ACr%C3%A8me%20Saint-Honor%C3%A9&oldid=4516688

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

  • 1 pint crème pâtissière, still hot
  • 8 egg whites
  • a few drops lemon juice
  • 1 pinch of salt
  • 2 Tbsp superfine sugar OR granulated sugar

Directions

  1. Mix any additional flavourings into the crème pâtissière.
  2. Whip the egg whites with the salt until soft peaks form.
  3. Sprinkle the sugar onto the egg whites and continue whipping to stiff peaks.
  4. Stir a quarter of the egg whites into the hot custard.
  5. Fold the rest of the egg whites in and chill before use.