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- From: mgh@mtuni (Marcus G. Hand)
- Newsgroups: mod.recipes
- Subject: RECIPE: Ambrosia
- Message-ID: <6184@decwrl.DEC.COM>
- Date: 31 Oct 86 11:39:58 GMT
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- Organization: AT&T Information Systems, Middletown, NJ.
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- .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE AMBROSIA D "30 Jun 86" 1986
- .RZ "AMBROSIA" "Simple desert for failed Pavlova attempts"
- My mother used to make the banana variety of this when she cooked
- her meringues a little too long or too hot.
- I've no idea of its origins.
- .IH "serves 4"
- .IG "1\(14 cups" "heavy cream" "300 ml"
- .IG "2" "bananas"
- (or equivalent amount of some soft fruit)
- .IG "" "broken meringue"
- .PH
- .SK 1
- Whip the cream.
- .SK 2
- Chop fruit coarsely, but don't crush.
- .SK 3
- Break meringue into large crumbs.
- .SK 4
- Mix everything shortly before serving and pile into glasses.
- .NX
- I can never make up my mind whether I prefer the strawberry or the banana
- version.
- Peach should be pretty good too, though I've never tried it.
- .PP
- This is a neat way of saving a
- .IR Pavlova (D)
- attempt when the meringue part fails:
- it produces a delicious desert and no-one need ever know...
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- very simple.
- .I Time:
- 10 minutes presuming you have the meringue available.
- .I Precision:
- No need to measure.
- .WR
- Marcus G Hand,
- AT&T Information Systems, Middletown, NJ.
- mtuni!mgh
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