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A - Z Food
Topic Started: Dec 18 2009, 10:11 AM (22,728 Views)
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Ile flottante

(I'm sure, if home made, this French dessert tastes wonderful... If however you'd buy it in a supermarket, as indeed we did when we lived in France, it tastes very plastic, fake, unnatural, and totally not good. And for some reason my mum says "it tastes so fake, it actually tastes good"... :wacko:
There are few kinds of food that will make me shudder - seeing my mum eat that plastic stuff is one of them. :yikes: )
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Z, I hope you don't mind. I've doing homeworks! :giggling:

You can change the recipe (where the recipes go) if you want.



Ile flottante recipe - Food and recipes of France

Ile flottante is a dessert that features very widely on French restaurants menus, but is often not of such great quality...but can and should be delicious. Consists of fluffy soft egg-white 'floating' on a sea of custard. But custard needs constant attention, and the eggs need to be just right, so this is a recipe to practice a bit before the dinner party...

1.5 cups of milk

split vanilla pod

3 eggs, separated

115g caster sugar

Make the 'islands':

Method

* Beat the egg whites in a clean dry bowl, with a little pinch of salt, until the eggs have firm peaks.
* Continue beating the eggs, while slowly adding the remaining 40gm of sugar.
* The eggs can now be put into boiling water to cook or, quicker and cleaner, cooked in a microwave on low power for 45 seconds. An alternative is to poach spoonfuls of the egg white mix in the hot milk for 2 minutes, before adding the egg yolks to make the custard. (Note: the egg-white can be cooked as a normal meringue if preferred - in a very low cooker for an hour or so - popular, but not really very traditional...)

Make the custard:

Method

* Heat the milk over a low-medium heat, with the vanilla pod. Heat until slightly bubbling, then remove from the heat.
* In a bowl, mix well the egg yolks and 75gm of the sugar, then pour on the hot milk and mix well. Pour the mixture into a clean saucepan, and heat over low heat for 5 minutes, stirring continuously. It should not boil during this time. After a fex minutes the custard will have thickened (about the consistency of double cream).
* Pour into a jug and remove the vanilla pod.
* The custard can now be put into bowls, and the islands placed on top. The ile flottante are now ready to eat straight away.


Ile flottante easy adaptation.
Squeeze two oranges and add sugar. Put the juice into a cup and add a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Finished!

This is a team effort! Thanks Z! :hug:

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:applause: Great job on the homework, Teresa! (Twin sis! :goofy_grin: )

You should put the recipe In The Kitchen ! That way we can find it again when we're looking for it (especially since I've actually started using pots and pans while in the kitchen, instead of just using the coffee machine... :giggling: ) :lol: I especially like the easy adaptation at the end there. ;)

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If you and I are twins, are you also the new witch in the story? :bigsmile:
I've yet to read it and apologize to .... Randy? :goofy_grin:

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If you and I are twins, are you also the new witch in the story?  :bigsmile:
I've yet to read it and apologize to .... Randy?  :goofy_grin:
:giggling:
Guess we'll have to wait and see. ;)

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