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FLOATING ISLAND

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Ingredients

  • 1 pint milk
  • 3 eggs
  • 4 heaping teaspoons corn starch
  • sugar to taste
  • a pinch of salt
  • raspberry or strawberry sauce

Directions

1

Heat the milk in a saucepan.

2

In a bowl, beat the yolks of 2 eggs and the remaining egg with sugar and corn starch.

3

Add a pinch of salt and a little cold milk to the egg mixture.

4

Pour the egg mixture into the boiling milk and cook, stirring until thickened.

5

Pour the mixture into 6 or 8 flat-bottomed wet cups to cool.

6

To serve, turn each cup out onto a saucer.

7

Beat the 2 egg whites until stiff, sweeten and flavor to taste.

8

Pile the beaten egg whites on top of the cooled mixture and pour raspberry or strawberry sauce around it.

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