International Women's Day
After having participated in her previous blog-event, Zorra sent me an invitation for the next one. This time she and her Italian fellow-blogger would like to celebrate the International Women's Day and asked the participants to prepare something yellow. My very first idea had been to cook something with corn but then I remembered the very popular bird milk which is yellow indeed because its cream is made with many egg yolks. While I was planning my post I found the freshest issue of a Hungarian gastromagazine at the hairdresser's and I got to know that this dish is very old, some recipes were discovered from the end of eighteenth century and they were copied into the article in old-fashioned Hungarian, really funny. We can prepare the bird milk (whose mutation is called floating island in other countries) anytime. My mother cooked it almost every day for me when my daughter was born. It was the sweetest way to persuade me to consume milk, and I did it. As for my daughter: she cannot bear it. Bird milk Ingredients for 6 portions: 1 l milk 4 eggs 100 g + 2 spoonfuls sugar 1 teaspoonful flour 1 pinch of salt 1 pod of vanilla Divide the eggs and whip the whites with the salt. When it is rather stiff add 2 spoonfuls of sugar and whip until glossy. Warm the half of milk with the vanilla pod in a shallow saucepan and put dumplings of egg white into it with the help of a tablespoon. Boil the both sides of the dumplings for 1 minute each, then take them out on a sieve. Repeat it until all the egg whites are consumed. Don't overcrowd the pan because the dumplings grow during boiling. Mix the egg yolks with the rest of sugar and beat until light and foamy. Add the flour, bit by bit the cold milk and in the end sieve the hot milk into it. Boil the cream with continous stirring on low heat until thickens. Don't let it boil. Divide immediately into small bowls and top with the white dumplings. Serve chilled.