On Wed 28 Sep 2005 07:20:49a, Pandora wrote in rec.food.cooking:
Quoted message said:
"Wayne Boatwright" <[email hidden]> ha scritto nel messaggio
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Quoted message said:On Wed 28 Sep 2005 04:11:44a, Nathalie Chiva wrote in rec.food.cooking:
Quoted message said:On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 17:50:31 +0200, "Pandora" <[email hidden]>
wrote:
>The recipe I will give you is with Pan di Spagna, liqueur (alchermes),
>chocolate, cream and whipped cream.
What is alchermes made of exactly ? I've never made Zuppa Inglese
because I can't find a liqueur by that name here.
>A question: if whipped cream is "cream", how do you call the Cream
>(the yellow one made with eggs). How can one distinguish them in a
>recipe??
In French we call the egg cream "crème anglaise".
Nathalie
I found this recipe for alchermes:
Alchermes
Ingredients:
1/2 (half) a litre of 90 proof alcohol
2 pounds of sugar
1/2 (half) a stick of vanila
15 grams of cinnamon
10 grams of coriander
10 grams of cordamom
2 cloves
5 grams anice
100 gram rose water
Special note: spice descriptions can be found here
Description:
1. Crush together the vanila, cinnamon, coriander, cloves, cardamom and
anice.
2. Add in a bottle 1/2 a litre of alcohol (90 proof) and a cup of
water.
3. Seal the bottle tightly and shake it briefly twice a day for two
weeks.
4. Melt 2 pounds of sugar with 1 cup of cold water then add it to the
preparation (bottle).
5. Shake it well and let it rest for two days.
6. Filter it properly and add the 100 grams of rose water.
In this recipe I don't see the "cocciniglia" (cochineal) which gives the
red colour to the liqueur!!! It is very important ingredient!
Pandora
It may be very pretty, but it doesn't sound very appetizing...,
cochineal
(kochInel´, koch´Inel) , natural dye obtained from an extract of the bodies
of the females of the cochineal bug ( Dactylopius confusus ) found on
certain species of cactus, especially Nopalea coccinellifera, native to
Mexico and Central America. The insects' bodies contain the pigment called
carminic acid, which is obtained by subjecting a mass of the crushed
insects to steam or dry heat; such large numbers of the insects are needed
to produce a small amount of dye that the cost is high.
:-))
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Wayne Boatwright *¿*
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