Ingredients: |
Ingredients:
From a recipe on the website of the Abruzzo region.
Ingredients for the dough:
12 eggs
300 grams (1 1/2 cups) of sugar,
100 gr (1/2 cup) of (sifted) potato starch (can use cornstarch)
200 gr of (sifted) flour (2 cups minus 1 T)
After preparing your own recipe for pastry custard (or use the one below), start to make the dough of the dessert.
Pastry Cream
2 cups whole milk
zest of one lemon (if you prefer not to use lemon, scrape the seeds from one vanilla bean into the milk or add 1/4 t. almond extract)
4 large egg yolks
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
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Directions: |
Directions:Put the lemon zest and the milk into a large, heavy saucepan and simmer over low heat for about 10 minutes.
In a large bowl or mixer, beat the egg yolks and sugar until thick and pale yellow. Add the flour and whisk until well combined.
Remove the lemon zest from the saucepan and slowly add the hot milk into the egg mixture, a tiny bit at a time. If you add them too quickly, you'll scramble the eggs. Then return the mixture to the saucepan and cook over low to medium heat, stirring constantly. Keep stirring until the mixture thickens and starts to boil. If it gets lumpy, use a whisk, or even a hand-held stick blender to smooth it out.
Transfer the mixture to a bowl and cover with plastic wrap, against the surface of the pastry cream, so it doesn't develop a "skin."Cool in refrigerator.
Beat the egg whites until stiff with 200 gr (1 cup) of sugar and then beat the yolks with 100 gr (1/2 cup) of sugar. Mix the two mixtures very slowly and add the sifted flour and the potato starch, until this mixture is soft. On a baking tray form three little pyramids with the mixture. Put in the oven for 10 – 15 minutes at 210° Celsius (410 degrees Fahrenheit). When everything is ready, wait until it cools down, cut in the middle to fill with the custard and then cover everything with custard... don't forget to sprinkle with icing sugar!
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This recipe for Sise Delle Monache (Abruzzo Region) is from