Bavarian Cream and Fruit Jelly
(A) Bavarian Cream
| yolk | 1 | |
| sugar | 4 table spoons | |
| milk | 80 cc | cc = cubic centimeter = approx. gram |
| vanilla beans | 1/4 pod or vanilla | |
| gelatin | 1 table spoon | soaked in 5 table spoons of water |
| cream | 100 cc | |
| cointreau | 1 table spoon | |
| ice water | in a big bowl |
(1) Break a yolk in a small bowl.
(2) Add 4 table spoons of sugar and mix well until it becomes whitish.
(3) Milk and vanilla beans are boiled in a pot and poured into the small
bowl.
(4) The small bowl contents are strained through a strainer.
(5) Heat again until it becomes slightly creamy.
(6) Strain again.
(7) Water-soaked gelatin is added and dissolved.
(8) Add cointreau.
(9) Mix the contents in a small bowl floated in ice water in a big bowl
until it becomes jellyish but not yet quite.
(10) Whip cream in another small bowl floated in the same ice water until
it becomes 70% creamy. Pour into the first small bowl of (9) and mix.
(11) Put the contents in a glass bowl or your favorite vessel to be cooled
in the refrigerator for 40 - 60 minutes until it is congealed.
(B) Jelly
| grapefruit juice | 250 cc | |
| gelatin | 2 tea spoons | soaked in 50 cc of water |
| grapefruit | 1 | |
| orange | 1 | |
| ice water | in a big bowl |
(1) Take out pulp of an grapefruit and an orange but get rid of juice.
(2) Grape fruit juice is warmed in a pot.
(3) Add water-soaked gelatin and dissolve.
(4) Put the contents into a small bowl floated in the ice water in a big
bowl and mix until it becomes jellyish.
(5) Add one half of pulp into the contents. Keep the other half for finish.
(A & B) Add jelly of (B) onto bavarian cream of (A) already cooled and congealed in the refrigerator. It is put again in the refrigerator for congealing.
(C) Sauce
| grapefruit | 100 grams of pulp and juice |
| sugar | 50 grams |
| cointreau | 1 table spoon |
| cream | as you like and if you like |
(1) Make sauce by mixing everything of (C).
(D) Finish
(1) Place pulp of the fruits, what is left from (B)(5), on the congealed
bavarian cream and jelly of (A & B).
(2) Pour sauce onto it. Mint may be added.