We celebrated my Mom's BIRTHDAY today and she loves anything made of poppy seeds
. I decided to make her a poppy seed cake with some SOUR cherries and a molecular twist.
I remember espuma from my childhood (We already did it Before it was COOL:)). Back in those days whipped cream was made by this cool equipment. I read a little bit and made up my own recipe using the sour CHERRIES my grandma jared.
Ingredients;
3dl liquid from a sour cherry Compote
500 ml whipping cream (20%)
1 bag of GEL/FOAM fix (the one that you can mix in cold)
(you may put a drop of pink or red food coloring so its not as white as mine was)
Mix the ingredients and fill the espuma. Don't fill it completely, otherwise it will EXPLODE (since there's no space for the gas). Load the GAS and go!
I got the poppy seed cake recipe from "Anya, ez isteni"...
In case you wouldn't speak Hungarian I write down the English version (with my tiny adjustments)
Ingredients;
2 small eggs
120g sugar
60g BUTTER
90g minced poppy seed (FYI blue poppy seeds do not contain opium)
135g flour
300g SOUR Cream (20%)
1 bag of Baking Soda
tiny lemon juice
1 bag of vanilla SUGAR
Mix the dry ingredients,
Beat eggs with sugar,
Add dry ingredients, lemon juice, melted butter, then sour cream.
Bake it on 180'
My first experiment with Agar-Agar was less than success, but the second time was a SUCCESS in terms of looks and taste at the same time. I got the idea from molecularrecipes.com but I used my own RECIPE.
Ingredients;
1 Herbs SOUP CUBE
1/2 dl Water
1,5 dl tomato juice (used the one I put away in the summer)
1 tin of concentrated tomato puree
AGAR-AGAR (following the proportions given on molecular recipes.com; 150g tomato soup-2.4g agar-agar)
For decoration;
parmesan cheese
BASIL leafs
Special equipment;
Syringe (from local pharmacy)
approximately 1m plastic tube (from pet shop, AQUARIUM section)
Let the soup cube dissolve in 1/2 dl BOILING water. Add tomato juice and puree. Add salt and pepper, than filter it. Measure the clear soup and calculate how much Agar-Agar you need and mix it into the soup. After Boiling take the syringe and attach Plastic Tube to its end. Let the other end of the tube rest in the soup and start pulling the air out with the syringe. When the plastic tube is FULL, put it into a glass of cold water. I advise you to check a YouTube video before the procedure.
After a few minutes the MIX solidified you can simply push it out by attaching it to the syringe again and push air through the tube.
Carefully arrange it into a snail shape and sprinkle some parmesan cheese on top, finally decorate with a BASIL leaf.
Enjoy!
