Crème Frit

Name: Crème Frit
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: Fine bread crumbs; 6 tablespoons confectioners’ sugar; 6 tablespoons flour; ½ cup half-and-half cream; 2 tablespoons Grand Marnier; 1 tablespoon Kirsch; Oil for French-frying; 1 egg white; Flour; 1 egg; 2 yolks

French-Fried Cream Custard

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Hows and Whys of French Cooking

By Alma Lach

Published 1974

About

Ingredients

1 egg
2 yolks
6 tablespoons confectioners’ sugar

Europe
France
Dessert
Burgundy
Mediterranean
Vegetarian

Method

Put egg and yolks into a heavy saucepan (or cook this recipe in a double boiler), and beat together. Mix together sugar and flour and then stir into the eggs. Beat and then add the cream. Stir-cook over very low heat until very thick. Add the Grand Marnier and Kirsch.
Remove from heat, pour into a buttered, square pan so that depth of custard will be about 1