The Saturday Sip: May 6, 2023
Your etiquette tip, quote and an Emily Post Cookbook recipe to start your weekend off right!
The Tip
Were you ever told when you were a kid to use your “indoor voice”? How do you know when it comes to your vocal volume what’s appropriate? Try this: speak loud enough for someone two to three feet away to hear you, and quiet enough so that someone six to eight feet away would not.
The Recipe
Well, Emily didn’t have a recipe for Coronation Quiche (King Charles’s dish of choice for his coronation.) Nor did she have a recipe for Coronation Chicken (Queen Elizabeth’s dish of choice at her coronation.) So we’ll run with Lemon Soufflé instead - a totally different direction - which sounds awfully uplifting. Emily serves up an alternative method for this perfect spring dessert. Though you might want to make two, Emily says you’ll want more than one serving!
Emily Post’s Cookbook, 1951, pg. 307
Lemon Soufflé
Time: 1 1/4 hours [1 hr 15 min]
Serves: 24
Ingredients
4 egg whites
4 tbs. sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
yellow part of the rind [zest] of 1 lemon
1 egg yolk
4 tbs. powdered sugar
1/2 cup heavy cream
4 tsp. French brandy or, if you prefer its flavor, Jamaica rum
Directions
A delicious dessert easily made on the top of the stove. It will serve 4, but 2 will have no difficulty finishing it! Unlike regular baked soufflé, this dessert may be kept waiting for over 1/2 an hour without danger of falling.
Beat the whites stiff, add the sugar gradually, then the grated yellow part of the rind [zest] of 1 lemon, and the vanilla. Continue beating until all is mixed.
Butter thoroughly the inside of the top of a double boiler, including its cover. Put the mixture in this, cover it, and place over, not in, simmering water in the lower half of the boiler. Leave alone on the top of the stove for 55 minutes or 1 hour.
Turn out onto a platter and serve with Foamy Sauce or the following creamy brandy sauce.
Cream the sugar into the egg yolk. Whip the cream, add the rum, and mix all together. Serve at room temperature.
The Quote
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Happy Saturday! We hope you’ve enjoyed the Saturday Sip. Let us know if you try Emily’s alternative soufflé method. You can leave us a comment or post a note via Substack Notes. Speaking of, have you checked out the new Notes feature of the Substack app? If you haven’t given it a shot, it’s pretty great!
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Until then,
Lizzie and Dan
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