Timbale Cases Recipe

Ingredients for Timbale Cases

• 1 teaspoon sugar
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ¾ cup flour
• 1 egg
• 1 tablespoon oil
• ½ cup milk
• Fat for frying

Instructions

1. Mix sugar, salt and sifted flour.
2. Add the well-beaten egg, oil and milk.
3. Beat with an egg beater until perfectly smooth, then strain.
4. This should be made an hour before it is needed and set aside in a cool place to lose the air which has been beaten into it.
5. Pour into a cup that is deep enough to allow the timbale iron to be lowered into it to the required depth without touching the bottom.
6. Have ready a kettle of fat, place the iron in it and heat until the fat is hot enough to brown a piece of bread while counting forty.
7. The fat should be deep enough to more than cover the mold end of the iron.
8. When the iron is heated, take out, remove surplus fat, using crumpled tissue paper, and lower into batter until iron is covered to not more than three-fourths of its height.
9. This is necessary to allow for the rise of the batter in cooking.
10. If only a thin layer of the batter adheres to the mold, dip it into the batter again until there is a smooth layer of the partly cooked batter.
11. Plunge quickly into hot fat and cook for about twelve seconds.
12. When properly cooked, the timbale case should slip easily from the mold.
13. Place the finished case on absorbent paper to drain and continue the operation until the required number are made.
14. A fluted timbale iron is easier to work with, as the case does not slip off until thoroughly cooked.
15. If the cases are not crisp, the batter is too thick and should be diluted with milk.
16. These cases may be used with great variety.
17. They may be filled with a choice creamed vegetable, or with creamed oysters, chicken or sweetbreads, or they may be filled with fresh or cooked fruit topped with whipped cream or powdered sugar and served as a sweet course.