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- From: MO@SU-CSLI (Maurice Bizzarri)
- Newsgroups: mod.recipes
- Subject: RECIPE: Chocolate Truffles I
- Date: 28 Feb 86 05:10:24 GMT
- Organization: Bizzarri Computing, Palo Alto, CA
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- .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE TRUFFLES-1 D "10 Feb 86" 1986
- .RZ "CHOCOLATE TRUFFLES I" "French-style chocolate confectionery"
-
- For those of you who are crazy enough about chocolate to go to the
- extremes that I do, here is the recipe for the chocolate truffles that I
- make. The formula is taken from Paul Bocuse's \fIFrench Cooking\fR,
- but the directions are my own.
- .IH "5 pounds of truffles" "3 kg of truffles"
- .IG "3 lb" "chocolate" "1.4 kg"
- (semi-sweet or semi-bittersweet)
- .IG "4 cups" "very heavy cream" "1 liter"
- .IG "\(12 lb" "sweet butter" "225 g"
- (i.e. unsalted butter)
- .IG "" "cocoa powder"
- .PH
- .SK 1
- Melt the chocolate in the top of a double boiler. Do not cook the
- chocolate. This should be done SLOWLY over minimum heat.
- .SK 2
- Boil the cream. Once the chocolate is completely melted, and the cream just
- boiled, combine in the top of the double boiler.
- .SK 3
- Take off the top pan from the water, and (off heat) mix until completely
- combined. Keep stirring until it is
- relatively cool. Allow to sit until it is cool enough to put into a
- refrigerator.
- .SK 4
- Refrigerate \fIovernight\fR (NO SHORT CUTS HERE!!!).
- .SK 5
- The next morning, melt this wonderful mixture again in a double
- boiler. When it is completely melted again, mix in the butter until
- it is completely absorbed. Whip, either with a hand whisk or a very
- slow electric gizmo, until the butter is completely absorbed and the
- mixture is cool again. This can take an hour or longer, depending
- upon the chocolate, etc. Let cool, and refrigerate overnight once
- more (this is not as critical as the first cooling; a few hours will be
- enough).
- .SK 6
- Heat once again, and whip until cool. Refrigerate until it is thick enough
- to pipe through a pastry bag. Using a
- .AB "half-inch" "1-cm"
- ozzle, make little balls on a
- big piece of parchment paper that has cocoa powder spread on it. Roll in
- the powder. Keep chilled until just before serving.
- Let them return to just above room temperature before eating.
- .NX
- If you like Grand Marnier or Kahlua or rum or whatever in your chocolate,
- the last melting (step 6) is the time to add. I think it's a small but
- forgivable sin myself.
- .PP
- I recommend Guittard chocolate. You can buy their semisweet chips in
- .AB "12 ounce" "350 g"
- bags. You can also buy it in
- .AB "10 pound" "5-kg"
- bars. You can also buy
- big bars of Guittards ``French Vanilla Semi bittersweet'' which is so
- good you might eat all of it before you cook with it. Guittard makes five
- types of bittersweet if you like you chocolate really bitter
- .PP
- Use genuine, real-live, honest ``heavy cream'' and not ultrapasteurized
- whipping cream. Try a wholesale dairy.
- .PP
- I only use Challenge sweet butter. Under no circumstances should you use
- anything but unsalted butter in this recipe.
- I use Hershey's Cocoa. Still the best for my taste.
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- quite difficult (melting the chocolate 3 times requires tremendous care).
- .I Time:
- 3 or 4 hours of preparation during a 3-day period.
- .I Precision:
- measure the ingredients.
- .WR
- Maurice Bizzarri
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