Posted by Jose Hernandez on October 26, 1998 at 18:33:42:
In Reply to: Re: ISO:Postre de las Tres Leches(3 Milk Dessert) posted by Robert S. Oceguera on July 15, 1998 at 04:02:20:
: Dime la receta en espaņol. OK
: : : 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.