Makes about 1.3 Liter 10 Eggs 2 Vanilla Sugar (Dr. Oetker) 250 gram fine Sugar (NOT icing sugar!) 2 cups Bacardi White Rum 1 cup cold water Eggs should be at room temperature! Preparation: - Put a pan with hot tap water on the stove, and at setting 4 or 5, depending on your own stove. If you notice bubbles on the bottom of the pan, than lower the temperatuur a bit because it is too hot. Don't know the setting for gas but should be easier to regulate. - Get 2 bottles or Mason Jars and clean thorougly. - Have anything else ready you think you need. Once the process start you cannot stop or everything becomes lumpy. Method: - Beat the eggs a bit, loosely. Put the mixture through a ziff to take out all the lumpy and hard pieces. Add the sugar and vanilla-sugar and mix and beat well. NO electric mixers of any kind; by hand *only*! - Add the Rum and water, mix well. At this time there will be a bit of foam ontop of the egg mixture. - Put the bowl or pan in the hot water and keep beating with the (non-electric) hand mixer until the foam starts to disappear. This is a very critical point. You let it sit to long it becomes pudding. Too short and it will be too thin. When you check your water bath you are not allowed to see any bubbles on the bottom of the pan, because this means the water is too hot. - When done, put immediately in the bottles or Mason jars and let cool, then keep stored in the fridge. Serve with some real whipped cream on top, or put some on top of your ice cream with some strawberries or blueberries with whipped cream. Delicious! Personal Comment: I put the 10 eggs in warm water for about 15 minutes. I then seperate the yolks from the whites and put them each throug a ziff. Since the eggs are warm it goes easier through the ziff to take out the little lumps, strings, and other weird thingies. Thank you Gerrit Grift, of Guelph Ontario, for passing on your mothers' recipe! |