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Gateau, Germaine

Lightly butter a deep pie plate, and line it with thin layer puff paste. Neatly trim all around the edges, line the inside of the plate with a sheet of paper, then fill up with dried beans, set in the oven for twenty minutes. Remove, take up the beans and paper.

Peel and skin three sound, juicy oranges, divide in sections, and place them in a bowl, add two ounces glazed sugar and two tablespoons curacao, mix well, and arrange them on a plate. Spread three tablespoons currant jelly over them. Place two egg yolks in a bowl, add two gills cream, two tablespoons sugar and six drops vanilla essence, and briskly beat up with a whisk two minutes. Sprinkle a little powdered sugar over, then set in the oven twenty minutes. Remove, let rest ten minutes. Lift it up from the plate, dress on a dish with a folded napkin and serve.