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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".

505 K 2× 3.8/5 (153 reviews)

3 hours 60 min. difficulté

Easy

3.35 €

6 cakes

12 Ingredients

Last modified on: June 15^th 2020

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For 6 cakes, you will need:

1 5 cups flour
2 2 tablespoons yeast
3 1 ½ tablespoon fine (or table) salt
4 ½ cup caster sugar
5 ²⁄₃ cup Milk
6 ²⁄₃ cup liquid cream
7 6 eggs
8 1 ¾ cup butter
9 ²⁄₃ cup caster sugar
10 2 tablespoons vanilla sugar
11 9 egg yolks
12 2 ²⁄₃ cups cream

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Times for this recipe

Preparation: 35 min.

Resting: 3 hours

Cooking: 25 min.

All in all: 3 hours 60 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

Warm ²⁄₃ cup Milk, then pour into the bowl of a mixer with ²⁄₃ cup liquid cream and ½ cup caster sugar.

Add 5 cups flour, 2 tablespoons yeast and 6 eggs.

Stage 2 - 5 min.

Start the mixer at low speed until mixture is homogeneous.

Turn the speed up a little, then add 1 ¾ cup butter a little at a time.

Continue mixing for a few minutes until the mixture is homogeneous.

Stage 3 - 2 hours

Gather up the dough, and put under a damp tea-towel in a warm place for about 2 hours.

Stage 4 - 10 min.

Meanwhile, prepare the cream:

In a bowl mix ²⁄₃ cup caster sugar, 2 tablespoons vanilla sugar, 9 egg yolks and 2 ²⁄₃ cups cream.

Stage 5

Check that the dough has about doubled in size.

Stage 6 - 3 min.

Tip onto floured working surface, and divide in two.

Stage 7 - 5 min.

Put each half into a pie dish, mould or tin.

Stage 8 - 1 hour

And with your hand (dusted with flour to avoid sticking), spread dough evenly over the dish.

Cover with a plastic sheet and leave to rise for one hour.

Stage 9

At the end of this time, preheat oven to 200°C or 392°F.

Stage 10 - 3 min.

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.

Stage 11 - 3 min.

Pour half of the cream in the centre of each cake, and put in the oven without delay.

Stage 12 - 25 min.

Remove from the oven when the cake is golden brown, after about 25 minutes.

Remarks

The domestic cake or "goumeau cake" goes dry rapidly, so best eaten on the day it's made.

Unfortunately it's getting difficult to find a good household cake, even in its region of origin,the Haut-Doubs. By "good", I mean: fresh-baked that day, light, not just sweetened in a hurry, but with a true cream. It's a great pity that bakers from Franche-comté are allowing this traditional recipe to be forgotten.

Source: Home made.

Nutritional information

	Proteins (gr)	Carbohydrates (gr)	Fats (gr)	Energy value (in k-calories)	Energy value (in k-joules)
Whole recipe	180 RDI=70 %	990 RDI=90 %	660 RDI=100 %	10,120 RDI=510 %	42,360 RDI: 510 %
Per 100 g	6 RDI=2 %	40 RDI=3 %	20 RDI=4 %	360 RDI=20 %	1,490 RDI: 20 %
Per cake	30 RDI=10 %	170 RDI=20 %	110 RDI=20 %	1,690 RDI=80 %	7,060 RDI: 80 %

The % figures are calculated in relation to the Recommended Dietary Intake , or RDI of 2,000 k-calories (or 8,400 k-joules) per day for a woman Change to a man

Possible allergens in this recipe: Gluten, Milk, egg

How much will it cost?

For 6 cakes : 10.00 €
Per cake : 1.70 €

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The 2 comments already posted on this recipe

There is no salt in this recipe?
Posted by jh november 17^th 2011 at 09:38 n° 2
I never says when or where to add the SALT????
Posted by Cin november 16^th 2011 at 19:51 n° 1

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