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Today we're learning about James Hemings, an enslaved man and the first American to learn classic French cuisine. who helped popularize many of the dishes we know and love today.

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Snow Eggs Recipe

(A transcript of Hemings' original recipe shown in the video)

Take 10 eggs, separate the yolks from the whites and beat the whites as you do for the savoy cake, till you can turn the vessel bottom upward without their leaving it;
when they are well beaten put in 2 spoonfuls of powdered sugar and a little orange flower water or rosewater if you prefer it.

Put a pint of milk in a saucepan with 6 oz sugar and orange flower or rose water;
when your milk boils, take the whites, spoonful by spoonful and do them in the boiling milk;
when sufficiently poached, take
them out and lay them on a sieve.

Take out a part of the milk, according to the thickness you
wish to give the custard.

Beat up the yolks and stir them in the remainder;
as soon as it thickens take the mixture from the fire;
strain it through a sieve; dish up your whites and pour the custard over them.

A little wine stirred in is a great improvement.

– James, cook at Monticello.

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Image Credits:

James Hemings's recipe for "Snow Eggs" written out by Jefferson's granddaughter, Virginia. Image courtesy Papers of Trist and Burke Family Members, MSS 5385-f, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library.

Thomas Jefferson, February 20, 1796, Kitchen Furniture Inventory, Library of Congress

A visual example of what the snow eggs dish looks like, via Atlas Obscura.

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