Indbagte Gulerødder

Serves 6

Ingredients

 * 2 tablespoons butter
 * 2 tablespoons flour
 * ½ cup light cream
 * 1 tablespoon Parmesan cheese — grated
 * 1 cup carrots — grated
 * 1 teaspoon salt
 * ¼ teaspoon pepper
 * 3 eggs — separated
 * 2 tablespoons bread crumbs
 * 2 cups creamed peas (or mushrooms)

Directions

 * 1) Melt butter in large saucepan.
 * 2) Add flour, gradually and stir until smooth.
 * 3) Stir in alternately, a little at a time, the cream and the Cheese.
 * 4) Add carrots, salt and pepper.
 * 5) Stir in the beaten egg yolks.
 * 6) Beat egg whites until stiff and fold in.
 * 7) Bake in a buttered ring mold coated with bread crumbs. Fill not more than ⅔ full. Set in a pan with enough hot water in it to come halfway up on the mold. Bake for about 50 minutes, or until firm, in a preheated 350ºF oven.
 * 8) Unmold on a platter.
 * 9) Fill center of ring with tiny creamed peas or mushrooms.