Cake For Company | The French Chef Season 2 | Julia Child

Julia Child bakes a Biscuit au Beurre Fourre l'Orange -- French butter sponge cake with an orange butter cream filling and an apricot almond glaze. This is a cake that rises to every occasion.
About the French Chef:
Cooking legend and cultural icon Julia Child, along with her pioneering public television series from the 1960s, The French Chef, introduced French cuisine to American kitchens. In her signature passionate way, Julia forever changed the way we cook, eat and think about food.
About Julia Child on PBS:
Spark some culinary inspiration by revisiting Julia Child’s groundbreaking cooking series, including The French Chef, Baking with Julia, Julia Child: Cooking with Master Chefs and much more. These episodes are filled with classic French dishes, curious retro recipes, talented guest chefs, bloopers, and Julia’s signature wit and kitchen wisdom. Discover for yourself how this beloved cultural icon introduced Americans to French cuisine, and how her light-hearted approach to cooking forever changed how we prepare, eat and think about food. Bon appétit!
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[@philliplewis1024]

She beat those eggs like they owed her money.

[@awildawallace5837]

So funny 🤣.

[@carmellabarber1472]

The best

[@annm4833]

Brilliant!. I'd put Julia against any electric mixer, my money's on her! 😂

[@rah62]

17:43 If you don't say ERK and WHACK, the cake doesn't come out of the tin. 😀

[@Koldeman]

Lol, her husband Paul made a large rolling stick from an old garage broom handle & she goes "Erk!" when beating the hell outta pastry dough!

[@Soapartisan875]

I remember watching Julia as a child maybe about 10 in Chicago on Saturday afternoons on PBS .. I had my notebook next to me to jot down recipes mainly baked goods then I would try making the recipes with my mom’s permission and support . She always enjoyed watching me make things all by myself . I learned so many recipes watching my mom and watching Julia .. I will never forget those Saturday afternoons as they sparked my love for cooking and baking 😊

[@HS22181]

Enjoyed and appreciated this Julia Child episode as I do all of them and peruse comments after. Reaching yours I am stopped dead in my tracks. You had a great mom.

[@jody024]

A lovely memory!

[@ExcelsiorElectric]

YOU won Julia, hands down. You gave the mixer a head start. ❤️

[@boblowney]

There was no way that a mere machine would beat JULIA CHILD at anything! Bravo.

[@JeepGuy27605]

Man I'm surprised she doesn't have an arm like Popeye! I broke a sweat just watching her beat those egg whites. I want to try this recipe now.

[@catherineshaw1122]

Wow, remember when having company was a thing? Me neither, lol, but my grandma did.

[@billy4072]

Yeh, must have been a right pain . Lol!

[@catherineshaw1122]

@@billy4072 I vaguely recall a few instances as a kid. It was fun then. My gran kept pies and cakes frozen in the basement just in case, lol. She loved the random pop-ins.

[@annm4833]

My mom had company over and she did special things for those times and I learned a lot from watching her 😊

[@laquerisma]

Just made this using these ingredients (for my own reference): 1 cup cake flour 3 egg yolks 1/3 cup sugar + 2 Tbsp 3 egg whites 3 Tbsp. browned butter 1/2 tsp salt Grated orange rind Bake at 350 for 25 min. 02/19/23 Filled it with orange pastry cream and was delicious.

[@navigatormother2399]

The amount of material here for Meryl Streep, just trying to be heard over the beating of those eggs! I'm smiling so wide.

[@DavidHall-ge6nn]

Not very much butter. NINE tablespoons. And seven eggs. Light as all getout. But the portions are small and absolutely delicious! Her pep talk at the end is gold!

[@evelynsaungikar3553]

I’d prolly just put raspberry jam between, and sift some icing sugar over.

[@ThomasDawkins88]

She's absolutely right. Nobody is born good at things, and Julia Child was not a born cook! She had to work very hard to master her techniques and even then it doesn't always come out perfectly, so don't beat yourself up if something fails.

[@nancy9478]

Lol its almost carnivore!!

[@merriemisfit8406]

I have a copy of the Betty Crocker 2-egg chiffon cake recipe that I have used over and over and over with different flavor twists. Always good results. I usually size it to make only one layer, then split that layer through to make two, fill in between with custard or preserves/marmalade or frosting, and then frost the top. I don't care if people see sloppy cake sides -- at least they don't wonder what's inside!

[@hunkhk]

she is so in her element, we all need to love our job and be as passionate about something as Julie is about cooking. What a marvellously warm and charming lady - so refreshing is you compare most of the stuff we are fed on social media these days. Trailblazer

[@ElaineEC]

I’m on a Julia Child kick lately. I’ve made the Beef Bourguignon (to die for!) and the Grench Onion Soup (in which I used 6 different onions instead of just yellow). It was wonderful. I’m going to make this cake tomorrow. It just looks delicious!!

[@bonnielaarman1878]

My mother loved watching these programs!😊

[@mvitulano]

How satisfying was that to watch Julia beat those eggs by hand!?

[@mariairace917]

For me the machine 😊

[@jody024]

Unlined copper though 😬

[@billy4072]

Balloon whisk envy... 😖😂

[@backpackmatt]

I know this comment will never reach you, Julia, but Thank You. ☺️😊

[@annm4833]

Oh I bet she knows ❤

[@cathynuytten798]

Who knew whipping eggs could be a sport!

[@marshasteeds]

Such energy.

[@jelsner5077]

Julia was the Bionic Woman when she was beating those egg whites!

[@mstrsims2]

once the basics of handling egg whites, yolks, folding, etc. you have the rudiments to make hundreds of desserts and cakes. Thanks for posting.

[@califdad4]

I've whipped egg whites by hand and by mixer, if going for stiff egg whites with peaks, I use the hand mixer. About the only thing I do that for is when I make waffle batter

[@catherinekhalili4412]

Delightful!

[@sarahmajor5945]

I love the dessert episodes!

[@dzintrarowe4272]

Great information and entertainment

[@awildawallace5837]

😋and yummy.

[@lorrainewaters6189]

stupendous! I am going to try this one. We love you Julia.

[@ColinCropley]

now that looks delicious!

[@acluck9000]

Thank you

[@nonenoneonenonenone]

When I have forgotten to add the butter i have put it on top of the cake and it forms a lovely glaze. The cake is just fine without butter.

[@Lizzy514]

Butter isn't bad for us at all. It's the sugar and the flour that nails us

[@Rotary_Phone]

Around the 6:20 mark you could hear some kind of radio interference come in for a second or two....

[@Djm8520]

The damn Director and camera person were maddening when they failed to show required closeups.

[@judd442009]

"Why was the cook mad?" "Because she beat the eggs."

[@allenmercant8]

When Jacques Pepin was an apprentice he was taught when beating egg whites the whisk must not touch the bowl. The chef would go around and if he heard a whisk hitting the bowl he'd kick the apprentice in the butt. Julia's backside would be black and blue.

[@SA-wh4es]

She clearly proved that her technique works, and whoever came up with that rule was wrong.

[@patricia8063]

I thought she sifted and measured the flour into a one cup measuring cup. Why is using tge flour straight out of the sifter when she’s mixing the cake together?

[@garyfurr1467]

Welcome to the drunken chef watch me fall down

[@nomadmarauder-dw9re]

Love this being single layer. I never got this mania for 3 or more layers. Unless your making a York Patty cake, or PB&J cake, what's the point? FFS, it's one flavor, so what's the point?

[@peterschindler7364]

Italian chocolate butter ream

[@darrellsadler2848]

Julia Child would be appalled at the cost of eggs these days.

[@lizadivine3785]

FJB

[@michaelratcliffe7559]

Couldn’t she use a copper bowel for her electric mixer?

[@nathanjustus6659]

They didn’t exist.

[@juliehobbs7938]

She can flat beat some eggs!

[@nomadmarauder-dw9re]

O.K., two layers. But still better than the dysfunctional show off B.S.

[@vladnechuataluk9151]

🇺🇦💕🇫🇷

[@saundrablakeslee3620]

p͓̽r͓̽o͓̽m͓̽o͓̽s͓̽m͓̽ 🤷

[@benzwiesenekker1493]

This is not french