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Le cannelé (ou canelé)

Yield: 12 Moulds

 

500 ml Whole Milk

55 g Butter in small pieces (1 stick)

1/2 Vanilla Bean split

3 Egg Yolks (60 g)

212 g Sugar

3 tbs Rum

115 g Flour-all purpose

1/4 tsp salt

 

Beeswax Mixture: 90 g Butter + 30 g Beeswax

 

Method:

  1. In Sauce pan, bring the milk to a boil, remove from heat, add rum and split vanilla bean (scrape seeds in), Set aside.

  2. In food processor, pulse flour, salt and butter until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.

  3. Add sugar and egg yolks. And pulse until fully combined

  4. Transfer Mixture to Kitchenaid bowl, with paddle on low speed , pour milk (minus vanilla bean), mix until mixture is smooth

  5. Strain mixture through sieve.

  6. Cover and refrigerate overnight, up to 4 days.

  7. Preheat oven to 350F with Convection.

  8. Heat up Beeswax mixture.

  9. Generously coat inside of Cannelé Molds with Beeswax Mixture. Then freeze molds at least 15mn

  10. Fill molds up to ¼” from top.

  11. Place molds in 2 pans in the oven for 1 hour, rotating pans 180 degrees after 30mn.

  12. Let rest for 20mn, pop our of molds.

  13. Let molds soak 30mn in plain water, wipe molds of any cake residue, let dry.                                                                 Read the story...

Cannele

Le cannelé (ou canelé)

Yield: 12 Moulds

 

500 ml Whole Milk

55 g Butter in small pieces (1 stick)

1/2 Vanilla Bean split

3 Egg Yolks (60 g)

212 g Sugar

3 tbs Rum

115 g Flour-all purpose

1/4 tsp salt

 

Beeswax Mixture: 90 g Butter + 30 g Beeswax

 

Method:

  1. In Sauce pan, bring the milk to a boil, remove from heat, add rum and split vanilla bean (scrape seeds in), Set aside.

  2. In food processor, pulse flour, salt and butter until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.

  3. Add sugar and egg yolks. And pulse until fully combined

  4. Transfer Mixture to Kitchenaid bowl, with paddle on low speed , pour milk (minus vanilla bean), mix until mixture is smooth

  5. Strain mixture through sieve.

  6. Cover and refrigerate overnight, up to 4 days.

  7. Preheat oven to 350F with Convection.

  8. Heat up Beeswax mixture.

  9. Generously coat inside of Cannelé Molds with Beeswax Mixture. Then freeze molds at least 15mn

  10. Fill molds up to ¼” from top.

  11. Place molds in 2 pans in the oven for 1 hour, rotating pans 180 degrees after 30mn.

  12. Let rest for 20mn, pop our of molds.

  13. Let molds soak 30mn in plain water, wipe molds of any cake residue, let dry.                                                                 Read the story...

Cannele

Le cannelé (ou canelé)

Yield: 12 Moulds

 

500 ml Whole Milk

55 g Butter in small pieces (1 stick)

1/2 Vanilla Bean split

3 Egg Yolks (60 g)

212 g Sugar

3 tbs Rum

115 g Flour-all purpose

1/4 tsp salt

 

Beeswax Mixture: 90 g Butter + 30 g Beeswax

 

Method:

  1. In Sauce pan, bring the milk to a boil, remove from heat, add rum and split vanilla bean (scrape seeds in), Set aside.

  2. In food processor, pulse flour, salt and butter until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.

  3. Add sugar and egg yolks. And pulse until fully combined

  4. Transfer Mixture to Kitchenaid bowl, with paddle on low speed , pour milk (minus vanilla bean), mix until mixture is smooth

  5. Strain mixture through sieve.

  6. Cover and refrigerate overnight, up to 4 days.

  7. Preheat oven to 350F with Convection.

  8. Heat up Beeswax mixture.

  9. Generously coat inside of Cannelé Molds with Beeswax Mixture. Then freeze molds at least 15mn

  10. Fill molds up to ¼” from top.

  11. Place molds in 2 pans in the oven for 1 hour, rotating pans 180 degrees after 30mn.

  12. Let rest for 20mn, pop our of molds.

  13. Let molds soak 30mn in plain water, wipe molds of any cake residue, let dry.                                                                 Read the story...

Cannele

Le cannelé (ou canelé)

Yield: 12 Moulds

 

500 ml Whole Milk

55 g Butter in small pieces (1 stick)

1/2 Vanilla Bean split

3 Egg Yolks (60 g)

212 g Sugar

3 tbs Rum

115 g Flour-all purpose

1/4 tsp salt

 

Beeswax Mixture: 90 g Butter + 30 g Beeswax

 

Method:

  1. In Sauce pan, bring the milk to a boil, remove from heat, add rum and split vanilla bean (scrape seeds in), Set aside.

  2. In food processor, pulse flour, salt and butter until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.

  3. Add sugar and egg yolks. And pulse until fully combined

  4. Transfer Mixture to Kitchenaid bowl, with paddle on low speed, pour milk (minus vanilla bean), mix until mixture is smooth

  5. Strain mixture through sieve.

  6. Cover and refrigerate overnight, up to 4 days.

  7. Preheat oven to 350F with Convection.

  8. Heat up Beeswax mixture.

  9. Generously coat inside of Cannelé Molds with Beeswax Mixture. Then freeze molds at least 15mn

  10. Fill molds up to ¼” from top.

  11. Place molds in 2 pans in the oven for 1 hour, rotating pans 180 degrees after 30mn.

  12. Let rest for 20mn, pop our of molds.

  13. Let molds soak 30mn in plain water, wipe molds of any cake residue, let dry.                                                                 Read the story...

Cannele

Pâte de Fruits

250 grams or 1 Cup plus 3 TB of Fruit puree* without seeds. 

1 TB fruit pectin

2 cups powdered sugar

2 TB honey or corn syrup

1 tsp lemon juice

Sugar to coat

 

*We use raspberry, orange, lemon and many other flavors. I will insert a tutorial on pureeing fresh fruit.

 

Method:

 

  1. Heat the purée to warm in a pan on medium. 

  2. Mix pectine with approximately 4 TB of powdered sugar.

  3. Sprinkle this mixture over the purée, mixing well, then bring to a boil.

  4. Add the rest of the powdered sugar in 3 steps.

  5. Bring to a boil again.

  6. Add corn syrup or honey.

  7. Bring to a temperature of 220 F or 107 C

  8. Remove from heat.

  9. Add lemon juice and mix well.

  10. Pour into a greased shallow 6 X 6 inch pan.

  11. Let rest for one hour.

  12. Invert on to cutting board.

  13. Cut into 1 X 1 inch squares.

  14. Sprinkle with sugar on all sides.

       

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Spicy Ratatouille in Puff Pastry

1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
One large eggplant chopped into 1- inch cubes
One yellow onion, peeled and chopped finely
Two medium zucchini quartered lengthwise, chopped into 1-inch pieces
Two small zucchini quartered lengthwise, chopped into 1-inch pieces
One red bell pepper stemmed, seeded, and cut into 1-inch pieces
3 to 4 cloves smoked garlic (regular is fine, too)

Two large tomatoes, seeded and quartered
1 TB tomato paste
1tsp Piment d'espelette powder
1/4 cup slivered basil
Two sprigs of fresh thyme
Pepper
Two sheets of Puff Pastry (keep cold until ready to assemble)
One egg-separated

 

Method:

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  1. Place eggplant and zucchini in separate bowls and toss with one teaspoon of salt. Put them in colanders and let drain for 30 minutes. Brush with a paper towel slightly. 

  2. Place one tablespoon of oil in a large skillet. Once sizzling, add the eggplant and saute until golden for 10 -13 minutes. Remove from pan and sprinkle a little salt and pepper and set aside.

  3. Add a tablespoon of oil to the pan. When sizzling, add onions and sauté until translucent. Remove and pour atop the eggplant in the bowl.

  4. Add a mounded teaspoon of oil to the skillet and sauté the zucchini until lightly browned roughly ten minutes. Transfer to the pot with the onions and eggplant. Next, add a mounded teaspoon of oil and saute the red peppers approximately ten minutes until golden. Transfer to the pot.

  5. On low heat, add remaining oil to the skillet and sauté garlic for one minute. Add the diced tomatoes, the tomato paste, piment d'espelette powder, basil paste, piment d'espelette powder, basil and thyme. Give it a good stir pressing down on the tomatoes to release juice. Simmer until slightly thickened for ten minutes approximately.

  6. Transfer all ingredients to a large pot over low heat and simmer for 30 minutes.  Taste and adjust your seasoning.

  7. Roll the puff pastry out and with a 4 to 5 inch round cookie cutter or a knife, cut pieces until you've used all of your pastry.  Place rounds onto a parchment-lined cookie sheet.
    Make sure they are still cold. If not, put into the freezer for a few minutes.  

  8. Once the ratatouille has slightly cooled, mound spoonfuls onto half the rounds. Take the empty rounds and cover each ratatouille-lined pastry. Using the egg-white, pinch the pieced together forming a seal. Once completed, place lined pastries into the freezer for a few more minutes. (If you have extra pastry dough left, you can cut out decorative shapes, such as leaves and adhere to the pastry.

  9. Using a brush or your fingertips, brush egg yolk over the pastries. 

  10. Place into a 400 Degree Fahrenheit oven for 20 - 30 minutes.
    Voilà!

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My belle-mère (mother-in-law in French) taught me this although I added a few ingredients, such as the spice. It is important to cook each ingredient so you don't overcook it to a mush. You can also adjust the seasoning to your liking. My husband doesn't like too much garlic; hence my slight hand of that ingredient.

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Grandmother Juanita’s Southern Biscuits

3 Cups All Purpose Flour (White Lily Soft Winter Wheat is recommended)
3/4 tbsp Baking Powder 
1 tsp Kosher salt divided
1/2 cup Lard or unsalted butter (they won’t be as fluffy if using butter)
1.5 Cups Cold Buttermilk
6 tablespoons of unsalted butter 

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Method:

 

  1. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. 

  2. In a large mixing bowl, whisk the flour, baking powder, sugar and the salt.  I prefer using a strainer over a sheet of parchment paper for proper distribution)

  3. With a pastry cutter, cut the lard or butter into the dry ingredients until the lard or butter is pea-size and the flour looks wet and clumped together. Do not be tempted to use your hands.

  4. Pour the cold buttermilk all at once and mix together with a rubber spatula until it just comes together in a ball.

  5. Transfer the wettish dough out onto a lightly floured surface. Knead the dough  six times. 

  6. Work into a circle or square that is one inch thick.

  7. Cut the biscuits using a biscuit cutter carefully with a straight motion.

  8. Place 2 tablespoons of butter in a rimmed baking pan or cast iron skillet and allow it to melt in the oven. 

  9. Remove the pan from the oven and sprinkle a pinch of kosher salt into it, evenly.

  10. Working quickly, arrange the cut biscuits onto the pan into the butter, touching one another. Brush the tops of the biscuits with the two tablespoons of the melted butter using a pastry brush.

  11. Bake biscuits for 18-25 minutes until they are golden brown and cooked through.

  12. Brush with rest of the hot melted butter. 

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Serve with jam or my Fruit Butter Spread (Recipe coming soon)

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Classic Sauce Béchamel

3 tbsp Beurre (40g)

1/3 cup All Purpose Flour (40g)

2 cups of Whole Milk (500ml)

Salt

Nutmeg

Alternate flavoring (pepper, Espelette pepper, thyme, shallots, garlic...)

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Method:

 

  1. Bring the Milk to a boil, set aside.

  2. In a separate pan, make the “Roux”:

    • melt the butter on medium heat.

    • Add the flour to the butter all at once and mix well.

    • Cook this “white Roux” once it get bubbly and consistent making sure it does not change color (about 2-3 minutes).  

  3. Add the milk gradually while whisking to prevent lumps, whisk and cook until it thickens.

  4. Add grated nutmeg and salt to taste. 

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To preserve the sauce, and prevent crusting, cover with a plastic film touching the sauce, or put a thin layer of milk on top.

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The Bechamel sauce is a classic base sauce, you can add many different spices... shallots, garlic…  

If you add Gruyère and Parmesan cheese, it becomes a Sauce Mornay.  

If you substitute the milk with a stock, it becomes a Velouté.

 

For Quenelles de Poisson Recipe in Cozy Cooking Journal.

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Chocolate Wafer/Sablé Cookies

  1 3/4 cup flour

3/4 cup Brut cocoa

1/4 tsp fine sea salt

1/4 tsp baking soda

2 sticks of unsalted butter (16 Tablespoons)

1/2 cup sugar

1/8 cup light brown sugar

1/3 cup plus 2 Tablespoons Honey

1 tsp vanilla paste or extract

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Method:

 

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. 

  2. Sift flour, cocoa, salt and soda in a bowl.​

  3. With a stand or hand-held mixer, mix butter, sugars, honey, and vanilla paste. Mix for at least five minutes until light and fluffy.

  4. Add dry ingredients in three additions, folding just until combined.

  5. Dump ingredients onto parchment paper. Top with another piece of parchment paper. Roll dough out to
    1/8 inch. Using cookie cutters, cut out pieces of dough.

  6. Bake on parchment paper at 350 Degrees Fahrenheit for 12 – 15 minutes. Check after 9 minutes.

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For Cheesecake Recipe in Cozy Cooking Journal.

Cornichons

(Adapted from the Melfor brand recipe)

 

1 1/2 pounds of small gherkins 

2 tablespoons kosher salt

8 cocktail onions, peeled

1 flowering head of dill torn into four pieces

1 small branch tarragon

1 small branch thyme

1 1/2 teaspoon yellow mustard seeds

4 tiny dried red chili peppers (optional)

3 cups white-wine vinegar (I use Melfor Spécial Conserves)

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Method:

 

  1. Wash the gherkins and place them on a kitchen towel to rub the skins very well. 

  2. Place the gherkins in a bowl and coat with the salt. 

  3. Remove from the bowl and toss the gherkins into a colander. Allow to sweat for one to two hours. 

  4. Clean the gherkins under cold water and dry them again with a clean towel. 

  5. Place the gherkins into the sterilized jars, layering with divided cocktail onions, spices, and chili peppers.

  6. Pour the room temperature vinegar into the jars, and seal. 

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Wait a few days before opening a jar to cure the cornichons—transfer jars to the refrigerator. 

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