Lemon Soufflés
Petits Soufflés au Citron
Take the peel of four lemons and free it from pith, chop it up very fine, and then cut the fruit in halves and strain the juice from them; put the chopped peel and two table-spoonfuls of the juice into a whipping pan with four and a half ounces of castor sugar, or five ounces if the fruit is very juicy, ten raw yolks of eggs, six whites of eggs, three ounces of candied lemon peel that is cut up into very tiny pieces, and a wineglass of Silver Rays (white) rum, and mix these up together with a whisk; then place a stewpan