Crepes a le ruth
6 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| Crepes | ||
| Filling | ||
| Powdered sugar; for garnish | ||
| Raspberry sauce | ||
| 1 | Whole egg | |
| ½ | cup | Milk |
| ⅓ | cup | Flour |
| ¼ | teaspoon | Salt |
| ½ | teaspoon | Sugar |
| Oil; to grease crepe pans | ||
| 1 | pint | Fresh or frozen raspberries |
| ¼ | cup | Water |
| ¼ | cup | Sugar |
| 2 | Lemons; skin (rind) & juice | |
| ½ | cup | Water |
| ½ | cup | Sugar |
| 2 | tablespoons | Flour |
| 2 | Eggs; separated | |
| ½ | tablespoon | Butter; room temperature |
Directions
CREPES
RASPBERRY SAUCE
FILLING
Preheat oven to 400 F. Fill the center of each CREPE with a spoonful of FILLING mixture and then fold each crepe over, in half. Place the crepes on a buttered baking sheet and bake at 400 F for approximately 15 minutes.
Because of the egg whites, the crepes will `souffle' in volume. Sprinkle powdered sugar over the finished crepes. Pour the RASPBERRY SAUCE onto the individual plates and spread evenly to the edges. Place 1 crepe on this pool of sauce and serve. CREPES: Mix all ingredients and whip until well-blended. Preheat the crepe pan, grease very well, and carefully add 1 spoonful of the batter. Distribute this batter evenly in the pan and cook until the edges turn slightly brown. With a spatula or palette knife, flip the crepe and cook until done. CREPES: Repeat until all the batter is used.
Crepes may be stacked, if made in advance. RASPBERRY SAUCE: Puree the raspberries. Combine in a saucepan over low heat the raspberry puree, water, and sugar. Reduce until thickened. Reserve. FILLING: Grate the skin off the lemon lightly with the `small size holes' of a cheese grater, trying not to remove any of the bitter white parts. Squeeze the juice from the lemons; strain the seeds out. In a saucepan, boil the lemon juice and skin, water, & sugar. In a separate bowl, beat the flour & egg yolks together well. Stir mixture into boiling lemon base & stir well to blend.
In a separate, clean bowl, beat the whites until they are fluffy & hold soft peaks. Fold ¼ cup of the lemon base into the whites.
LE RUTH'S
636, FRANKLIN ST., NEW ORLEANS. WINE: CHATEAU COUTET, 1971
From the <Micro Cookbook Collection of French Recipes>. Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive, .