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50 recipes with
«Bronte's gold»
Dome, biscuits, nougat, ...with Bronte's pistachio
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DOME OF PISTACHIO
Ingredients:
4 eggs, 2 spoonfuls of rum, 150 gr. of bar chocolate,
a glass of sugar, half a glass of water, a handful of pistachio.
Melt the chocolate in a Bain Marie.
Pour in a small saucepan the sugar and the water and make it boil
until, throwing a drop of sugar on a saucepan full of water, a
little ball is formed.
Join the chocolate syrup mixing rather quickly. Take the cream
from the fire, pour the rum on it and let it cool down.
Beat the albumens to snow and add them to the cream, pour it on
the serving dish shaping it as a dome, put on the top the pistachios peeled and minced and place in the refrigerator
until ready to serve.
SMALL
PISTACHIO BISCUITS
 Crush some
unpeeled pistachio together wit an equal weight of sugar, flavor with
cinnamon, clove, grated lemon peel and mix with
sufficient albumen to create a soft and consistent paste.
Whishing to add flour, the right proportion would be: with 500
gr. of pistachios, 100 gr. of flour.
The biscuits should be
baked in a mild oven.
To beautify such small sweets with aspro (from the Greek-
Byzantine aspros, white) beat an albumen with 200 gr. of
sugar and lemon juice.
When it becomes very white cover the sweets with it and bake
at a very mild oven.
PISTACHIO CREAM BY NORMAN DOUGLAS
Peel 250 gr.
of pistachio, by immersing for some seconds, in boiling water and
crush it in the mortar with a small spoonful of cognac. put the
paste in a container with half a liter of cream and two well beaten
egg yolks.
Slowly mix it, over a mild fire, until the mixture
becomes dense, but making sure not to bring it to boil.
Pour this cream in a deep tray and when it gets cold
strew the surface with other pistachios cut in largish slivers.
This cream is useful to people with a cool temperament.
TURKISH TURBAN A LA TRIBOULET
Ingredients:
500 gr. of pistachio, 250 gr. of castor sugar, 15 eggs, 250 gr. of
flour, some grated green lemon peel.
For the glazing: 2 albumens, 200 gr. of icing sugar.
Mush in the mortar the pistachios with the sugar, the egg
yolks and the lemon peel until you have a a smooth and creamy
mixture: whip the albumens to snow and add them to the mixture,
then. while mixing delicately, add, very slowly, the flour.
Pour the mixture in a well buttered mould and cook in
the oven at a low flame for about 2 hours.
The sweet shall visibly rise.
When has cooled down completely, cover it with a glazing prepared
this way: Whip the two albumens adding, slowly and delicately, 200
gr. of icing sugar.
With one half of this mixture garnish a part of the sweet,
put few drops of carmine food coloring in the remaining
cream and decorate the rest of the sweet.
PISTACHIO PASTRY
Ingredients:
1 Kg. of pistachio, 1 Kg. of sugar, 50 gr. of honey, l grated
lemon peel and 8 albumens.
Mix together the finely minced pistachio, the sugar and the honey,
add then the 8 albumens and the grated lemon peel.
Form some small balls to put in a slightly buttered tin and
place in oven at 180-200° for about 20 minutes.
The pastries can be covered with fused chocolate. |
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PISTACHIO
SWEETS
 Ingredients:
1 Kg. of pistachio peeled and minced, 900 gr. of
sugar 100 gr. of honey, 5 albumens whipped to snow.
Preparation: mix and knead the ingredients, form biscuits with the hands or with a
confectioner syringe and place them in the oven for about 20
minutes at 160°-170°.
PANCAKES WITH PISTACHIO CREAM
(For 4 persons)
Ingredients:
6 pancakes 15 cm in diameter, a small jar of
pistachio cream (200 gr.), 100 gr. of minced pistachio, icing sugar.
Preparation: prepare the pancakes with your personal recipe, Strew
the pistachio cream. Fold the pancakes and sprinkle them with the
minced pistachio and the icing sugar.
PISTACHIO
BRITLE
Ingredients
for 4 persons:
120 gr. of pistachio, 100 gr. of castor sugar.
Peel the pistachios and cut them horizontal or vertical filets.
Put
the pistachio so cut to the fire to get them dry until they become
yellow but not toasted.
Put the sugar on the fire in a saucepan and when it shall be
thoroughly liquefied pour in the hot pistachio and mix with care.
The precise point of cooking, beyond which the brittle shall become
bitter, is shown by the color of cinnamon acquired by the sugar
caramel.
Then pour it, little by little, on any mould slightly oiled
and press it with a lemon against the mould walls. Take it off the mould when cold.
PISTACHIO NOUGAT
(For 6 persons)
Ingredients:
500 gr. of honey, 4 egg albumen, 150 gr. of
hazelnut,
150 gr. of almonds, 150 gr. of pistachio, icing sugar.
Preparation: heat in a Bain Marie the honey at low fire, mix evenly,
add the albumens whipped to snow and stir for few minutes.
Add the almonds, the hazelnuts and the pistachios previously roughly
minced, amalgamate everything with care.
Take it from the fire and
pour it on a mould previously sprinkled with icing sugar. Wait for a
day before taking the nougat from the mould. |
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