American Southern

Lemon Puff

Name: Lemon Puff
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 8 servings
Ingredients: 6 each eggs; 2 cups milk; 5 tbsp flour; 0.5 tsp salt

Historic recipe from Malinda Russell's 1866 cookbook "A Domestic Cook Book". Page 24. One of the earliest known cookbooks by an African American author.

15 minPrep Time

30 minCook Time

8Servings

mediumDifficulty

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Ingredients

6 each eggs
2 cups milk
5 tbsp flour
1/2 tsp salt

Instructions

1
Six eggs, one pint sweet milk, five tablespoons flour, a little salt; bake in cups full twenty minutes.
2
Sauce—Juice of one lemon, put in as much sugar as you can beat the whites of three eggs, pour over the top; eat while hot.

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