General Directions
Do not more than half fill the tin. Tie a piece of buttered paper right round the outside of the tin, letting it project about two inches above the tin. Set the soufflé dish in a vessel of simmering water, which should reach half way up the soufflé tin and which should boil gently and be replenished from time to time with boiling water. Cook either in a very moderate oven, or on a very gentle fire. The water should only simmer.
When cooked, turn the soufflés out carefully and serve with cream or wine sauce.
Almond Soufflé
4 ozs. almonds
7 eggs
4 ozs. sugar
1 table-spoon lemon sugar
2¹⁄₂ ozs. flour
Blanch and pound the almonds with one whole egg. Add the sugar, six yolks, lemon sugar (see [p. 164]). Beat for quarter of an hour. Sift in the flour lightly, avoiding lumps, and add the whites beaten to a stiff froth. Pour into a buttered mould and steam about an hour.
Chocolate Soufflé
2 ozs. butter
2 ozs. fine flour
¹⁄₂ pint milk
1 oz. sugar
2 ozs. powdered chocolate
4 eggs
¹⁄₂ tea-spoon vanilla
Melt the butter in a saucepan. Add the flour. Mix until quite smooth. Add the boiling milk gradually and stir together into a smooth paste. Strain through a sieve into a basin. Add the vanilla, sugar and chocolate. Add the well-beaten yolks when the mixture is nearly cold, and then the whites beaten to a stiff froth. Mix thoroughly and pour into a buttered mould. Steam for about an hour and a half.