Household cake (Gâteau de ménage)
A traditional recipe from Franche-comté, it's a flat round kind of brioche, covered with an egg cream called "Goumeau".
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Last modified on: February 21th 2011
For 2 cakes, you will need:
- 1
250 g flour - 2
20 g yeast - 3
5 g fine (or table) salt - 4
30 g caster sugar - 5
50 ml milk - 6
50 ml liquid cream - 7
2 eggs - 8
130 g butter - 9 50 g caster sugar
- 10
10 g Vanilla sugar - 11
3 egg yolks - 12 200 ml cream
- Total weight: 975 grams
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| Preparation | Resting | Cooking | Start to finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| 34 min. | 3 hours | 25 min. | 3 hours 59 min. |
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Warm 50 ml 
Start the mixer at low speed until mixture is homogeneous.
Gather up the dough, and put under a 
Meanwhile, prepare the cream:
Check that the dough has about doubled in size.
Tip onto floured working surface, and divide in two.
Put each half into a pie dish, mould or tin.
And with your hand (dusted with flour to avoid sticking), spread dough evenly over the dish.
At the end of this time, preheat oven to 200°C or 392°F.
With a tablespoon (dusted with flour to avoid sticking), create a kind of hollow in the centre of the pie to receive the cream filling.
Pour half of the cream in the centre of each cake, and put in the oven without delay.
Remove from the oven when the cake is golden brown, after about 25 minutes.
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