[Sca-cooks] Favorite chocolate truffle recipe?

[Jessica Tiffin]

At 11:25 AM 12/20/03 -0600, Adamantius wrote:
>  I got out my copy of the Larousse
>Gastronomique to find the chocolate truffle recipe I used a couple of
>years ago, and of the three or four listed, none of them look really
>familiar to me. I'm leaning in the direction of the cream truffle
>recipe (as opposed to the one that is specifically a truffle with
>butter recipe, or the one that calls for paprika and prunes -- it's
>gotta be better than it sounds, no?). Even the truffle with cream
>recipe isn't exactly like what I remember doing, but I remember using
>one of those as a basis.

While saving various truffle recipes to my hard drive, lo and behold! a 
file called "truffle.txt", which turns out to contain a post from one 
Master Adamantius from several years ago - I fear, good Master, you used 
the paprika and prunes one...

>I STR having great success with the paprika truffle recipe in the
>Larousse Gastronomique (this being a more-or-less French food item, I
>consider it pretty trustworthy). I made one significant change, though,
>as I recall, which was because I had no good paprika in the house, and
>an abundance of cheap champagne. I reduced (I think) two bottles of the
>nasty champagne which vendors to my lady wife's workplace keep giving
>her, down to about 1/2 cup, and incorporated this concentrate into the
>mixture. I have no idea if this is how champagne truffles are actually
>made, but they were certainly a hit.
>
>Will post the original recipe later, if I can.
>
>Adamantius

hope this is in time to be useful...
JdH

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