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                       Michel Richard's Pastry Eggs

Recipe By     : Michel Richard <tpogue@idsonline.com>
Serving Size  : 1    Preparation Time :0:00
Categories    : Pastries

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
--------  ------------  --------------------------------
                        Frozen puff pastry
                        Pastry cream
   2      c             Milk
     1/2  c             Sugar
   1      pn            Salt
                        Vanilla bean -- split
   5                    Egg yolk
     1/3  c             Corn starch
                        Glaze

Roll out little circles of pastry leaving the two edges slightly
thicker than the sides. Sprinkle with sugar.

Cook the pastry cream ingredients until it boils and is thick. Cool.

Place a generous tablespoon or so of cream on the pastry dough and
two apricot halves so it looks like two egg yolks.

Bake in 350°F oven for 35 minutes.

Brush pastry and apricots with a nice sweet apricot glaze. The baking
takes the sweetness out of the fresh apricots so you need this final
step.


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