Posted by Robert S. Oceguera on July 15, 1998 at 04:02:20:
In Reply to: Re: ISO:Postre de las Tres Leches(3 Milk Dessert) posted by Katie Horan on June 30, 1998 at 16:22:09:
: : I am looking for the recipe for the dessert , I have one for the cake.
: Katie>I am looking for the tres leches recipe in English. please email me with the recipe! kbh98@hotmail.com
robert:
2 cups of flower
6 tea soops of baking powder
9 eggs
4 cups of water
2 1/4 cups of sugar
For the cream:
1 can of condensed milk
1 can of evaporated milk
1 can of Half cream (can substitute with half milk & sweet Mexican cream)
3 Tablespoons of brandy or your taste
2 tea spoons of vanilla
(Please excuse my cooking terms but I'm not a cook, although I am Mexican and this is a traditional dessert.
With a strainer mix the baking powder with the flower until soft & fluffy.
Seperate the egg white and beat until having a heaving consistensy (almost like marshmallows)
Then mis the yolks in a boel with the water until they are almost white, then add all the sugar with out stoping.
Add the flower to the yolks spoon by spoon wrapping gently with a wide wooden spoon until mixed, but do not dissolve. Finaly. add the whites againg with wrapping motion with out dissolving. You avoid dissolving by mixing very slowly.
ake at 175 degrees centigrate after the oven has warmed for 15 mintes. Bake for half hour or until you still a tooth pick and it is clean.
Blend al the ingridienst for the cream, and wait until cake is cold.
With a fork pick the cake enough for all the cream to consume. do not over pick because it will fall apart when you cut it.
what you can do is pick on a several times and slowly por the cream and pick at it until consumed.
Grate a little bit of chocolate and chill.
you can also substitue brandy for kalua.