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- From: aviva@excelan (Aviva Garrett)
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- Subject: RECIPE: Chocolate mousse
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- Date: 25 Jul 86 03:38:30 GMT
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- .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE MOUSSE-CHOC-1 D "19 May 86" 1986
- .RZ "CHOCOLATE MOUSSE" "A rich but not cloying chocolate mousse"
- This recipe is based on one that appeared several years ago in
- \fIBon Appetit\fR.
- After much experimentation, we have come up with this recipe,
- which is less sweet than the original and downright scrumptious.
- (I even like it, and I don't generally like chocolate anything.)
- .IH "Serves 12\-20"
- .SH CRUST
- .IG "\(12 cup" "butter" "125g"
- .IG "1 cup" "flour" "100g"
- .IG "1" "egg yolk"
- (see note)
- .IG "1 tsp" "vanilla" "5 ml"
- .IG "1 tsp" "grated lemon peel" "5 ml"
- (optional)
- .SH FILLING
- .IG "13 oz" "semisweet chocolate" "400 g"
- (see note)
- .IG "3 oz" "unsweetened chocolate" "100g"
- .IG "2" "whole eggs"
- .IG "4" "eggs, separated"
- .IG "16 oz" "whipping cream" "500 ml"
- .IG "" "powdered (confectioner's) sugar"
- .PH
- .SK 1
- Make the crust:
- Preheat oven to
- .TE 350 175 .
- Cut flour and butter together. With a fork mix in egg yolk,
- vanilla, and lemon peel. Press onto the bottom and sides of a
- .AB "9 inch" "23 cm"
- springform pan, and bake for 10\-12 minutes at
- .TE 350 175 ,
- or until it just begins to turn slightly golden.
- .SK 2
- Melt all the chocolate in a double boiler.
- .SK 3
- Whip the whipping cream with
- .AB "2\-3 Tbsp" "20\-25 g"
- of powdered sugar (the stiffer you whip it, the
- stiffer the mousse will be).
- .SK 4
- Beat the eggs whites with
- .AB "2\-3 Tbsp" "20\-25 g"
- powdered sugar.
- .SK 5
- Remove the top pan of the double boiler (with the
- melted chocolate) from the bottom pan and let it cool a bit.
- (``Cool'' means it's only cool enough so that when you add
- the eggs in the next step, they don't cook.
- You still need to be able to stir it.)
- .SK 6
- Add the whole eggs to the chocolate, one at a time, and mix well.
- .SK 7
- Then add the egg yolks one at a time and mix well.
- .SK 8
- Mix some of the whipping cream (enough to lighten the chocolate)
- into the chocolate.
- .SK 9
- Alternately fold in the whipping cream and the egg whites into
- the chocolate.
- .SK 10
- Pour into the crust.
- .SK 11
- Refrigerate 6 hours or overnight.
- .NX
- This is my cheesecake crust. A graham cracker crust
- works well too. The original recipe used a crust made from
- chocolate wafer cookies.
- .PP
- If you have no better use for the extra egg white in making the crust,
- add it to the eggwhites used in the filling.
- .PP
- I don't recommend Ghirardelli chocolate, as it's too sweet.
- .PP
- .PP
- The function of the powdered sugar
- is to help the cream/whites stiffen. The sweetness
- of the mousse comes from the semisweet chocolate, not the
- powdered sugar.
- Note 6: You can also use a
- .AB "12-inch" "30-cm"
- springform. Instead of putting the crust up the entire sides, just go up
- half way.
- Or you can use two
- .AB "8-inch" "20-cm"
- springforms.
- In this case either spread the crust very thin or increase
- the crust by 50%.
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- moderate to hard.
- .I Time:
- About 45\-60 minutes for beginners, 30 minutes once you have it down.
- Cooking time: 15 minutes for the crust.
- .I Precision:
- crust ingredients should be measured precisely.
- .WR
- Aviva Garrett
- Santa Cruz, CA
- Excelan, Inc., San Jose, CA
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