Vanilla Sauce with Snow Dumplings

Ingredients

• 6 egg whites
• 200 g sugar
• 1 pinch salt
• 0.5 untreated lemon (grated zest)
• 1 tsp lemon juice
• 250 ml milk
• 250 ml Whipping Cream
• 1 Vanilla bean
• 5 egg yolks
• 100 g sugar
• 2 tbsp sugar
• mint

Instructions

1. 1.

   Whisk the milk and cream with the split vanilla bean, bring to a boil.

2. 2.

   Beat the egg yolks with sugar until creamy. Stir in the hot milk-cream mixture and whisk over a bain-marie until thickened.

3. 3.

   For the snow dumplings, beat the egg whites very stiffly, fold in sugar, salt, lemon zest and juice. Bring water to a rolling boil. Using two wet tablespoons, drop spoonfuls of batter into the water, let them glide into the non-boiling water, cook for 1 minute, flip, then cook another minute.

4. 4.

   Arrange the snow dumplings on top of the vanilla sauce.

5. 5.

   For decoration, dissolve sugar in a little water in a pot, bring to boil and reduce to caramel. Drizzle over the dumplings and garnish with mint before serving.