Luisetta's Souffle
Origin: Florence, Italy
Source: Pellegrino Artusi, 1891
Ingredients
- L milk
- g sugar
- g flour
- g butter
- g sweet almonds
- count eggs
- vanilla sugar
Instructions
- Pound the peeled almonds very fine with a spoonful of sugar.
- Make a balsamella (bechamel) of butter, flour and hot milk; stir in the almonds, sugar and vanilla; let cool.
- Add the yolks then the whipped whites.
- Pour onto a buttered flameproof platter and bake in a country oven. Serves five or six.