Homemade Lady Fingers - recipe

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Homemade Lady Fingers

**Recipe adapted from LaVarenne Practique Cookbook, by Anne Willan,

published by Crown

Level:

Easy

Serves:

Makes - 24 ladyfingers

 

Ingredients

2 tablespoons butter

3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons sifted flour

4 egg yolks

1/2 cup sugar

4 egg whites, beaten until stiff

Pinch of salt

1 teaspoon vanilla

Powdered sugar for dusting

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour 2 baking sheets with 2

tablespoons butter and 2 tablespoons of flour. Mark parallel lines in the

flour across the width of the tray about 4 inches apart. Put the eggs and

sugar in a large mixing bowl, and with an electric mixer fitted with a wire

whisk beat on medium-high speed until the mixture is pale yellow, thick, and

has tripled in volume, about 8 minutes, using the mixer. Add the egg whites,

remaining 3/4 cup flour, salt and vanilla, fold to mix thoroughly so the

mixture is smooth. Fill a large pastry bag with a 3/4-inch plain tube with

the mixture. Pipe fingers about 4 1/2-inches in length on to the baking

sheet, using the lines as a guide. Dust the ladyfingers with powdered sugar.

Bake until for 15 to 18 minutes, or until just firm on the outside and soft

in the center