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From: Eric Hunt
Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes
Subject: Mont Blanc (cream/chestnut/meringue)
Date: 20 Dec 1994 13:07:27 -0000
Organization: ICL Retail Systems,Bracknell,Berks,UK
Message-ID: <3d6kuf$dj@jerry.rb.icl.co.uk>
Reply-To: ehunt@bsc.edu
MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.00
Title: Mont Blanc (cream/chestnut/meringue)
Categories: Desserts
Yield: 10 servings
MMMMM--------------------------MERINGUE-------------------------------
4 Egg whites, room temp
1/8 ts Salt
1/8 ts Cream of tartar
1 c Less 1 tb sugar
3/4 ts Vanilla
MMMMM-----------------------CHESTNUT PUREE----------------------------
3 lb Fresh chestnuts or one 1lb
-15 oz can chestnut puree
1 Vanilla bean (if using fresh
-chestnuts)
3/4 c Water
1/3 c Sugar
MMMMM-----------------------CREAM FILLING----------------------------
1 1/2 c Whipping cream
1 tb (or 2) tb sugar
1 ts Vanilla
1 Egg white, room temp
2 Squares semisweet chocolate
-grated
For meringue:
Preheat oven to 250 deg F. Grease a baking sheet, sprinkle with
flour, and mark 1 9inch circle or 10 3.5 inch circles (this may
require more than one baking sheet)
In large bowl, beat egg whites with salt until foamy. Add cream of
tartar and beat until soft peaks form. Beat in 2 tb sugar until
mixture holds long, stiff peaks when beater is lifted. *Fold* in
remaining sugar and vanilla. Place in pastry bag fitted with 1/2-inch
plain tube and pipe 1 large round or 10 small ones onto prepared
sheet. Bake 1 hour or until meringue is firm to the touch. If
meringue(s) brown during baking, reduce heat. Transfer meringue(s) to
rack and let cool.
For chestnut puree:
Peel chestnuts using small, sharp knife and leaving inner skin.
Preheat oven to 375 deg F. Place chestnuts in shallow heatproof dish
and bake 10 to 15 minutes, or until skin dries and peels off easily.
Rub nuts in rough cloth to remove skins. Place peeled nuts in
saucepan with vanilla bean and water to cover and bring to a boil
over high heat. Reduce heat, cover and simmer 25 to 30 minutes, or
until very tender. Remove vanilla bean (it may be washed and reused.)
Drain chestnuts, then put through food mill or sieve, or in food
processor, and puree.
Briefly boil together 3/4 c water and sugar to make thin sugar syrup,
then set aside to cool. When cool, beat enough syrup into chestnut
puree to make it thin enough to pipe through pastry bag but still
thick enough to hold its shape. If using canned puree, sweeten to
taste, making sure it is thin enough to be piped. Fit pastry bag with
1/8-inch plain tube and fill with puree.
Beat cream until stiff, then add sugar to taste and vanilla. Beat egg
white in separate bowl until stiff peaks form, then fold into cream.
Place cream mixture into pastry bag fitted with star tip.
Arrange meringue(s) on serving platter and pipe chestnut puree in
bird's nest shape around edge of meringue. Pipe cream mixture in
center, piling it high. Sprinkle grated chocolate over whipped cream
and chill until serving time.
Appeared in The Best of Bon Appetit.
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