Recipes: 31 results
Frozen Nougat
(Found inTextsStages)Impress your guests with this delightful dessert, a smooth mixture of meringue and dried fruit, which can easily be prepared several days beforehand.
269K4.5 1 hour 28 min. February 21th 2011
Finger biscuits
(Found inTextsStages)These small biscuits, that look a bit like savoy biscuits, are delicious alone or with Champagne, but are also the base for charlottes or Tiramisu.
333K5 50 min. July 30th 2021
Macarons (the original French macaroons)
(Found inTextsComments)This recipe really is "of the moment": the success of these small, highly-coloured cakes, in an infinite variety of flavours, is impressive. It's a recipe which needs some care, in order to produce a result worthy of a professional pastrychef. No problem, I will guide you through the recipe,...
1.6M 714.6 2 hours 38 min. October 3rd 2019
Real custard sauce (crème anglaise)
(Found inTexts)Real custard or vanilla sauce consists of egg yolks beaten with sugar and cooked slowly in vanilla milk. It is the base or the accompaniment for many desserts.
407K 24.3 44 min. January 17th 2018
Chocolate mousse
(Found inTexts)Here is a simple quick recipe for chocolate mousse. It is just necessary to be careful at the final stage, when mixing the melted chocolate and the beaten egg-whites.
468K3.7 40 min. February 21th 2011
How to beat egg whites
(Found inTextsStages)Beat egg whites is very common in cooking and pastry, here are some tips to get there easily.
548K5 5 min. February 21th 2011
Pear and lime meringue pie
(Found inTextsStagesComments)A layer of light lime cream and caramelized pears in a crisp pastry case, topped with Italian meringue, which is browned under the grill or with a flame.
246K 23.8 2 hours 36 min. February 21th 2011
Italian Meringue
(Found inTextsStages)Italian meringue is made with sugar cooked to 120°C or 248°F. This is different from the French, which is made from caster sugar. The cooked sugar gives a softer meringue which can be added to other preparations or use as it is.
465K4.3 30 min. June 2nd 2015
Succès praliné (praline meringue)
(Found inTextsStages)The "succès" (success) is a classic of traditional French patisserie, made with two layers of almond meringue filled with praline butter cream. It's very rich and a little old-fashioned these days, but still has many faithful fans. The original recipe comes from the master chef Gaston Lenôtre, and...
360K 34.1 4 hours 16 min. June 20th 2010
Almond dacquoise
(Found inTextsStages)A dacquoise is a sort of almond meringue that can be eaten like a biscuit or can be used as the base of more sophisticated desserts.
195K5 44 min. June 28th 2011
Key Lime Pie for Jeremy
(Found inTextsStages)Key Lime Pie is a famous speciality from the Keys region of southern Florida. This delicious tart is usually made with Key limes - a special variety. But in this simplified version, normal limes will work perfectly well.
88K 13.8 3 hours 50 min. September 30th 2012
Swiss meringues
(Found inTextsStages)Swiss meringues are a variant of the classic French meringue. The eggs whites and sugar are beaten together in a bain-marie at first, then beaten stiff as normal. This makes for a firmer meringue which can be used to make small items or figures to decorate cakes or ice creams (such as mushrooms,...
113K3.8 1 hour 17 min. June 2nd 2015
Nougat
(Found inTextsStages)Nougat is a sweet made with honey and almonds that has changed very little since ancient times. The nougat we know today is the Montelimar variety, in which egg whites are added to the basic recipe for a lighter texture. Here is a simplified version.
116K 15 1 hour 41 min. June 19th 2013
Ice-cream Vacherin
(Found inTextsStages)Ice-cream vacherin is a festive French dessert. It consists of two different flavours of ice cream (blackcurrant and vanilla here) sandwiched between two circles of meringue, topped with whorls of Chantilly (whipped cream) which is then frozen. It is not too complicated, but involves a bit of work...
168K4.5 8 hours 45 min. December 21th 2014
Lemon Meringue Pie Verrines
(Found inTextsStages)This is a new twist on the classic lemon meringue pie. All the elements are there: sweet crunchy bits, meringue and lemon custard, but presented in layers in a glass.
57K5 21 min. July 12th 2015
Lemon Tart / Meringue Pie
(Found inTextsStages)Lemon tart is one of the great classics of French patisserie. The are lots of versions with different kinds of pastry and filling. This one uses sweetcrust pastry (pâte sablée) and lemon curd as the filling. Just top with meringue for that other classic: lemon meringue pie.
45K5 3 hours 21 min. March 23th 2016
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Bread oven
Building a bread oven was until a few years ago a job for the professionals. But now you can buy a kind of kit which allows you to build your own bred oven without professional masonry know-how. You should know that the kits only provide the main part of oven, the hearth, where you light the fire...1.2M3.6 June 3rd 2024
Blog articles: 4 results
The 3 kinds of meringue
Meringue – what could be simpler? Just beaten egg whites with sugar added. This makes a fairly stiff mixture which can then be cooked in a cool oven to create those lovely, light confections. But in the world of professional patisserie, meringue comes in three different kinds. Even if the...55K4.5 June 14th 2013
The ideal restaurant
Like all passionate cooks (I suppose), from time to time I dream of opening my own restaurant. I imagine loads of things: it will be like this or like that, we'll do this, I'll cook that, the room will have this or that – in short, I dream.12K4.4 October 15th 2012
The 3 secrets of successful mousses
When you make a traditional mousse, that is to say without using a siphon, whatever the recipe, it's always the same principle: on one side you have a dense mixture, very tasty, and on the other side egg whites beaten until stiff. All the difficulty of the success of a mousse, it will be to mix the...5,8264.6 April 3rd 2021
Creams in pastry
In this post, I propose you to make a small tour of the different creams in pastry. If you like to make them at home, you have already noticed the many creams that exist for the different desserts: Chantilly, custard, diplomat, Bavarian, etc. etc. Each one more delicious than the other, they...8,7094.5 March 12th 2022