Ingredients
2 tblsp soft butter
¾ cup sugar
Juice of one lemon
2 tsps grated lemon rind
2 tsps fresh lemon thyme
2 eggs separated and the whites stiffly beaten
1 cup milk
2 tblsp flour
Method
- Cream together the butter and sugar
- Add the lemon juice rind and thyme and mix well
- Beat the egg yolks into the milk and flour
- Add to the butter and sugar mixture and beat well.
- Finally gently fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites.
- Pour the mixture into a buttered dish.
- Stand the dish in an oven pan with about 2cm of water in it.
- Bake at 200c for about 40 minutes or until firm.
This is best served piping hot as it is rather like a soufflé and tends to settle as it cools.
Serve with cream and a sprinkling of lemon thyme.
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