Mille et une feuilles with golden rasperries
- 1 cup milk
- 1 vanilla bean
- 1/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon sugar
- 3 egg yolks
- 1 tablespoon rice flour
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 1 teaspoon unsalted butter
- 1 cup heavy cream, softly whipped
- 1 pound Puff Pastry (see recipe)
- Golden raspberries
- To make the cream filling, scald the milk with the vanilla bean and one-quarter cup of the sugar.
- Beat the egg yolks with the remaining sugar until thick.
- Sprinkle in rice flour and cornstarch, and continue beating until well mixed.
- Remove the vanilla bean from the milk.
- Beat half the milk by droplets into the egg mixture.
- Return this to the remaining hot milk and bring to a boil, whisking very fast to prevent scorching.
- Remove from the heat and pour into a bowl to cool.
- Rub the top with butter to prevent a skin from forming.
- Cover with plastic wrap and cool completely.
- Immediately before using, fold in softly whipped cream with a wooden spoon.
- To make the mille et une feuilles, roll the puff pastry into a rectangle three-quarter-inch thick.
- Cut this into thirds.
- Roll each third into rectangles of equal size, one-sixteenth-inch thick.
- For easy handling, cut each rectangle into two smaller rectangles, each five-inches by nine inches.
- Spray baking sheets with water and place pastry rectangles on them.
- Chill for at least one-half hour.
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
- Remove pastry from refrigerator and prick evenly with the tine of a fork.
- Bake until evenly browned, or about 20 minutes.
- Cool pastry on racks.
- After adding the whipped cream to the filling, layer it with the strips, four high.
- Sprinkle with confectioners' sugar.
- Decorate with golden raspberries.
- To serve, slice with a serrated knife into serving pieces.
milk, vanilla bean, sugar, egg yolks, rice flour, cornstarch, unsalted butter, heavy cream, pastry, golden raspberries
Taken from cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/6133 (may not work)