Harengs Soufflés (Soufflé of Herring and Smelts)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- 200 grammes butter
- salt
- pepper
- nutmeg
- 5 egg yolks
- 30 grammes flour
- 1 herring
- 5 smelts
- 5 egg whites
Instructions
- Put 200 grammes of well-worked butter in a warmed terrine and soften it to a pomade.
- Add salt, pepper and nutmeg, then 5 egg yolks one after the other, and 30 grammes of flour.
- Cut the fillets of a herring into dice, and the fillets of 5 fried smelts in the same way, and mix them into the preparation.
- Beat 5 egg whites to a very firm snow and mix them in.
- Cook in a pan at the mouth of the oven.
- Cut up at will.