|
Downtime Food & Wine-National News Elderflower Crème Brulée
| Elderflower Crème Brulée |
|
|
| Monday, 19 May 2008 | |
 Ingredients for 6: • 3 elderflower blooms, debugged • 1 litre double cream • 8 egg yolks* • 200g sugar, plus more for the topping What to do: • Pour 200ml boiling water over the elderflowers, and leave them to infuse for an hour. Then strain through a fine sieve or tea strainer. • Bring the cream to the boil. • Mix the egg and sugar together until they are smooth, then stir in the hot cream, in stages, before adding the elderflower infusion. • Pour the mixture into ramekins, and bake for 11/4 hours at 100ºC. • Sprinkle with sugar, and caramelise either under a hot grill or using a blowtorch. • Serve chilled with some red fruit – cherries, raspberries or fragrant wild strawberries are perfect. * option: use the egg-whites for accompanying meringues |
| < Prev | Next > |
|---|
| Ségolène by a whisker? |
|
The French Socialists know they will be led by a woman. They will not know until tonight which one. The result will be very close. |
|
| Read more... |
| Simone Veil achieves immortality. |
| The 81 year old lawyer and politician has been elected at the first attempt to the ranks of the Académie Française known to the French as les immortels. | |
| Read more... |
| 70% of teachers on strike – maires resist child minding scheme. |
| The teachers are on strike in protest at the plan to “sedentarise” 3,000 of France’s 11,000 itinerant special needs teachers who operate Réseau d'Aide Spécialisée aux Élèves en Difficulté (RASED). Instead of moving from child to child, they will be based where there is a concentration of children with problems. Their pay will remain the same. | |
| Read more... |
| Former Prime Minster faces criminal charges |
|
Investigating magistrates in the Clearstream affair, Jean-Marie d'Huy and Henri Pons have decided that the former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin should stand trial for being an accessory to a criminal libel – "complicité de dénonciation calomnieuse". |
|
| Read more... |
