A Plain Soufflé

Ingredients

• 6 ounces rice-flour, arrowroot, or tous les mois
• 0.5 pint milk
• white sugar
• 5 eggs

Instructions

1. Mix the rice-flour, arrowroot, or tous les mois well with the milk flavoured with your choice of essence of almond and lemon peel, or orange-flower water. Place over the fire, stirring constantly to keep the mixture smooth, until it thickens.
2. Sweeten with white sugar. Stir in the beaten egg yolks.
3. Proceed as in the previous receipt (a cross-reference to an earlier soufflé method in the manuscript). At the moment of placing the soufflé into the oven, fold in the whisked egg whites.
4. Pour into a soufflé dish if you have one. If not, a cake-tin may serve as a tolerable substitute; line it with a fringed paper and twist a napkin around it when bringing the soufflé to table for presentation.