Categories: Fruits, Desserts 
      Yield: 12 servings 
  
-------------------------------GENOISE LAYER------------------------------- 
      4 lg Eggs 
      1 pn Salt 
    2/3 c  Sugar 
    1/2 c  Cake flour 
      3 tb Cornstarch 
 
-------------------------------LEMON FILLING------------------------------- 
    3/4 c  Lemon juice 
      1 c  Sugar 
    1/2 c  Butter 
      6    Egg yolks 
  1 1/4 c  Whipping cream 
 
------------------------------STRAWBERRY SYRUP------------------------------ 
    1/2 c  Water 
    1/2 c  Sugar 
      1 pt Strawberries 
      2 tb Kirsch 
      1 c  Toasted sliced almonds 
      2 pt Strawberries 
      1 c  Whipping cream 
           - for finishing 
  
  FOR THE GENOISE: Preheat oven to 350~F. Break the eggs into the bowl 
  of an electric mixer and whisk in salt, then sugar. Place the bowl 
  over a pan of simmering water and whisk until just lukewarm. Whip by 
  machine until cold and increased in volume, about 4-to-5 minutes. Mix 
  cake flour and cornstarch. Sift over egg foam in 3 or 4 additions, 
  folding it in with a rubber spatula. Pour the batter into a buttered, 
  paper-lined 10-inch round pan and level it off. Bake the Genoise 
  layer about 30 minutes until it is well risen, golden and beginning 
  to shrink away from sides. Unmold immediately and cool on a rack. 
  Bake and cool the Genoise layer.