Lemon Dessert Crepes Recipe
Ingredients
3 tablespoons sweet butter
4 tablespoons unsifted all purpose flour
1/2 cup hot milk
3 eggs, separated
3 tablespoons sugar
3 tablespoons lemon juice
1 teaspoon dried lemon peel
Salt
12 dessert crepes
Directions
Preheat oven to 400°F.
Melt butter over low heat, blend in flour, and continue cooking and stirring 1 to 2 minutes.
Remove from heat and beat in milk.
Return to heat and stir continuously until mixture boils and thickens.
Transfer to a bowl before beating in egg yolks one at a time.
Stirring thoroughly, blend in 3 tablespoons sugar, lemon juice, and lemon peel.
In another bowl, whip egg whites with 1/8 teaspoon salt until they form soft peaks; continue beating until whites form stiff peaks.
Gently fold in a small amount of whites to lemon mixture; then add remaining whites to the mixture.
Add 1 tablespoon of lemon mixture on dessert crepe and fold the crepes in half and in half again.
Place in shallow, buttered baking dish side by side, and bake ,10 minutes.
Melt butter over low heat, blend in flour, and continue cooking and stirring 1 to 2 minutes.
Remove from heat and beat in milk.
Return to heat and stir continuously until mixture boils and thickens.
Transfer to a bowl before beating in egg yolks one at a time.
Stirring thoroughly, blend in 3 tablespoons sugar, lemon juice, and lemon peel.
In another bowl, whip egg whites with 1/8 teaspoon salt until they form soft peaks; continue beating until whites form stiff peaks.
Gently fold in a small amount of whites to lemon mixture; then add remaining whites to the mixture.
Add 1 tablespoon of lemon mixture on dessert crepe and fold the crepes in half and in half again.
Place in shallow, buttered baking dish side by side, and bake ,10 minutes.