Sunday, December 20, 2009

Quick and easy recipes for redcurrants please?

I have a few bunches... what can I do with them?Quick and easy recipes for redcurrants please?
red currant pie





INGREDIENTS


190 g all-purpose flour


3 g baking powder


115 g butter, softened


100 g white sugar


2 egg yolks


3 g grated lemon zest


2 egg whites


100 g white sugar


5 g cornstarch


250 g red currants











DIRECTIONS


To Make Dough: In a medium bowl, sift together flour and baking powder. Mix in butter, sugar, egg yolks and lemon zest until mixture forms dough. Let rest in cool place for 30 minutes.


Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Roll out dough and put into a springform pan.


Bake in oven for 25 minutes, or until golden yellow.


To Make Filling: In a medium bowl, beat egg whites until stiff. Gradually stir in sugar and cornstarch; beat for 5 minutes. Fold currants into mixture and pour into pie crust.


Bake in oven for 10 minutes, or until top is lightly browned.Quick and easy recipes for redcurrants please?
ok this is NOT quick but its wroth the time


Old-Fashioned Currant Tart Ingredients


PASTRY DOUGH 3 Egg yolks


1/2 c Unsalted butter 3 tb Flour


1/4 c Sugar 1 ts Vanilla


1 ts Vanilla extract FINISHING


1 Egg yolk 3 pt Fresh red currants


1 1/4 c Cake flour 1/2 c Toasted, sliced almonds


PASTRY CREAM GLAZE


1 c Milk 1 c Red currant jelly


1/4 c Sugar 2 tb Kirsch





Instructions for Old-Fashioned Currant Tart


FOR THE DOUGH: Beat the butter and sugar with the paddle on medium speed until very soft and light. Beat in the vanilla and the yolk and continue beating until smooth and shiny, about 3 more minutes. Stop the mixer, sift the cake flour and add to the butter mixture. Pulse the mixer on and off to incorporate the flour. Scrape the dough onto a piece of plastic, wrap and chill it until firm. FOR THE PASTRY CREAM: Combine the milk and half the sugar in a saucepan over low heat. Whisk the yolks with the remaining sugar and sift the flour over and whisk it in. Beat 1/3 of the boiling milk into the yolk mixture and return the remaining milk to a boil. Beat the yolk mixture into the boiling milk and continue beating until the cream thickens and comes to a boil. Remove from heat and stir in the vanilla. Scrape the cream onto a clean plate, cover with plastic wrap and chill. Roll the dough and fit it into a 10-to-11-inch tart pan. Cut a disk of parchment paper to fit the inside of the dough and fill with dried beans. Preheat oven to 325F. Bake the tart shell about 20 minutes, until set. Remove the paper and beans and continue baking 5 minutes more to color the pastry. Do not over-bake. Cool the shell in the pan. Spread the cooled pastry cream on the cooled tart shell. Arrange the currants on the pastry cream. Bring the jelly and kirsch to a boil and strain. Reduce to thicken if necessary. Brush the glaze on the berries. Edge the tart with the almonds and sprinkle the almonds with the confectioners sugar
Redcurrant surprise -





1 Cook steak and chips





2 Throw away the redcurrants
Just sprinkle a bit of powdered sugar on them. Wait about 30 minutes and eat.

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