[Sca-cooks] Favorite chocolate truffle recipe?
Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius
adamantius at verizon.net
Sat Dec 20 21:02:17 PST 2003
Also sprach Susan Fox-Davis:
>This is what I always use. It got me declared "Chocolate Goddess of Caid"
>which declaration has never actually been rescinded.
>
>Selene Colfox
This seems pretty similar to the Ghirardelli recipe Anne-Marie
posted, and also to one of the ones in Larousse, so I'm probably
pretty much on track.
My lady wife has cordoned off parts of the kitchen while working on
an enamel piece, so we're going to have to be satisfied with having
made our marzipan (3 lbs modern-style flavored with almond extract,
approx. 1.5 lbs of the more period stuff, made with rosewater).
I'm just glad dinner was a simple, one-pot garbure, or cleanup would
have been... interesting.
Before you ask, Stefan, a garbure is a French (from Savoy?)
meat-and-vegetable hotpot, very simple but also very good. Basically
you boil things like shredded cabbage, leeks, onion, potatoes, etc.,
in water until tender and ever so slightly inclined to disintegrate,
then boil (I said boil, not simmer; this is unusual, but for a
reason) any of several types of preserved meats, whose flavorful fat
emulsifies with the boiling liquid, enriching and thickening it.
Goose confit is a classic, but anything from ham to bacon to cured or
smoked sausages can be used. I used chunks of ham from the shank end,
some chunked smoked turkey wings, cabbage, sliced celery, onion,
carrot, potato, and about half a head of garlic (this last is pretty
essential), chopped parsley and just a pinch of dried oregano at the
end. I bought some Colombian-style chorizo, those being the best
smoked sausages I could find at the supermarket at the time, but
ended up not including them; it was plenty rich and meaty enough
without them. Served in wide soup plates over dry whole-wheat toasts
(some actually crumble the toast into the stew as it boils, to
thicken it... medieval? Naaahhh...)
Adamantius
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