Mother's float (david letterman's mom's recipe)
4 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | tablespoon | Flour |
| ½ | cup | Sugar |
| Pinch of salt | ||
| 1 | tablespoon | Butter |
| 1 | Egg, separated | |
| 2 | cups | Milk |
| 1 | teaspoon | Lemon extract |
| 1 | tablespoon | Granulated sugar |
| ½ | teaspoon | Vanilla extract |
Directions
In a small saucepan, combine flour, ½ cup sugar, salt, butter, egg yolk and milk. Over medium heat, bring to a boil. Add lemon extract. Set aside to cool slightly. In a small bowl, beat the egg white until stiff.
Fold half the egg white into the pudding mixture. To the remaining beaten egg white, add 1 tbsp. sugar and vanilla. Pour pudding into small casserole dish. With a teaspoon, drop lumps of beaten egg white on pudding, and brown in 350f oven for 5 to 10 minutes. Chill and serve.
Source: TV Guide, May 11, 1996.
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V3 #207 Date: Mon, 29 Jul 96 17:30:11 UT From: "Deborah Kühnen" <DEBKUHNEN@...>