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     Title: Gateau Au Chocolate
Categories: Cheesecakes
     Yield: 1 servings

          Cake:
    14 oz Semisweet baking chocolate
    14 tb Unsalted butter
 1 1/2 c  Sugar
    10    Eggs; separated
     1 tb Grand marnier
     1 ts Vanilla extract
          Creme anglaise:
     4 c  Milk
     8    Egg yolks; beaten
 1 1/4 c  Sugar
     2    Vanilla beans
          Split beans
          Use inside scrapings)
          Powdered sugar

 Recipe by: From The Dinah Shore Cookbook
 Preheat oven to 250.  Butter and flour 12 inch springform
 pan. Break chocolate inbto chunks.  Place in top of double
 boiler along with butter.  Melt over simmering water,
 stirring occasionally.  Stir 1 1/4 cups sugar into
 chocolate-and-butter mixture.  Continue heating until sugar
 is dossolved.  Beat egg yolks in separate bowl.  Beat some
 of the hot chocolate mixture into yolks.  Combine all
 together in saucepan. Cook over simmering water, stirring
 constantly, until slightly thickened.  Stir in grand
 marnier and vanilla.
 Beat egg whites until they stand in soft peaks.  Continue
 beating, gradually adding remaining 1/4 cup sugar until
 whites stand upright in stiff peaks when beater is removed.
  Carefully fold eggwhites into chocolate mixture.
 Pour mixture into prepared pan.  Bake 3 hours.  Remove from
 oven. Let cool to room temperature, cover and chill.

 While cake cools, make creme anglaise.  Bring milk to boil
 in medium saucepan.  Mix egg yolks and sugar in bowl and
 whisk hot milk into mixture.  Return mixture to saucepan.
 There is a surperb restaurant in Wheeling, just outside of
 Chicago. It is called La Francais and it is VERY Francais.
 The chef is an artist named Jean Banchet.  This is his
 chocolate cake.  Serve it in thin slices as it is really
 rich and you'll have a little left over the next day for
 you.  Incidentally, that cooking time -- 3, count 'em 3 --
 hours is correct as is the low baking temperature.  If the
 cake begins to get a little crusty and dark on top, place a
 circle of aluminum foil over the top. JM.  From
 [email protected] (DEBORAH EPSTEIN)

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