Negus

Name: Negus
Yield: Serves 10
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 250 g/8½ oz caster sugar (bit less); 5 duck eggs (best with duck eggs but can use extra large hen’s); flaked or grated chocolate; 150 g/5½ oz bitter chocolate; 55 g/2 oz unsalted butter; 1 tsp concentrated black coffee; 200 g/7 oz sugar; 100 g/3½ oz flour and 75 g/2½ oz bitter cocoa, sifted together twice; 4 eggs

Preparation info

Serves
10

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Chocolate

By Sara Jayne Stanes

Published 1999

About

A contribution from Michael Raffael who says that he first came across this recipe - attributed to L’Auberge de Père Bise - at Annecy - in Femmes d’Aujourd’hui (c 1973). ‘Père’ Bise was one of the legendary ‘godfathers’ of modern French cuisine. This, as witness to its name, is an all ‘black’ chocolate cake.

Ingredients

5 duck eggs (best with duck eggs but can use extra large hen’s)
250 g/8½ oz

Europe
France
Cake
Vegetarian
Mediterranean

Method

Butter and flour a 20 cm (8 in) ‘moule à manqué,/loose bottomed cake tin. Preheat oven to 190°C/375°F/gas 5