All chocolate and pears is a classic forever. Perhaps because I am too classical in the kitchen :-) I shrink a bit 'from these couplings. But my friend Mafi, which is rather conservative in some respects, does not like the food too strange. And tomorrow we are to dine with her four friends always make fun of you, as always, and ask for the bill to Monica, interior designer (and I to laugh, and she knows why) that sells furniture, and she did not want him to give but in the end we will, only God knows when, and Ilaria new mother with babe at home she calls the magpie, which eventually will be home to review the Mafi bucolic hung, and I will take around because for years I called it off-key singing, feeling blue, but recently I had the proof that she is much more in tune me! So, at this dinner and combined into four quatt'otto, she, the hostess asked me, but a chocolate cake and pears do not know? Or a pear mousse you can not do? And the pears are in season now! He ran a time when between us was great, the Bavarian strawberries, but the envelopes, which Ilaria not stand still and take me around the Bavarian (with great reason) ... and a rice stracchino, defined by the hospital. We only had 25 years at the time, many laughs, how many labors on the books, but especially as many laughs. The university has joined us for life now. Thee gone well, Ilaria, strawberry season is now ... And then, Mafin, here contented! Of course, not knowing whether the outcome will be positive, I also made a tart with pears ... But without chocolate. Tomorrow or after the public as well!
to 4 cups of pear puree
williams pears 1 kg 120 g of sugar
1.5 liters of water
pear mousse 200 g of pear puree
80 g whipped cream
6 g gelatin sheets
60 g of egg white
salsa di cioccolato
60 g di panna liquida
60 g di cioccolato fondente
1 cucchiaino di cacao
zenzero candito (regalatomi da Stella, vedi ricetta )
williams pears 1 kg 120 g of sugar
1.5 liters of water
pear mousse 200 g of pear puree
80 g whipped cream
6 g gelatin sheets
60 g of egg white
salsa di cioccolato
60 g di panna liquida
60 g di cioccolato fondente
1 cucchiaino di cacao
zenzero candito (regalatomi da Stella, vedi ricetta )
Sbucciate le pere e tagliatele a tocchi. Mettetele in una pentola con l'acqua e lo zucchero a cuocere circa 15 minuti. Scolatele dolcemente su una griglia e asciugatele. Frullatele e ricavatene una purea: ve ne servirà circa 200 grammi. Preparate poi una meringa italiana : fate sciogliere 70 g di zucchero con 20 g di acqua, portateli alla temperatura di 121° C e incorporate lo sciroppo ottenuto agli albumi che avrete iniziato a montare due minuti prima. Lasciate sb attere fino al raffreddamento della meringa. Ottenuto un composto spumosissimo, denso, liscio e lucido, scaldatene un pochino e fateci sciogliere la colla di pesce, bagnata e strizzata. Montate la panna e mescolate piano la meringa, la panna e la purea di pera. Versate il composto in stampini o bicchierini e mettete in frigo a rapprendere qualche ora. Quando la mousse si è un po' rappresa, procedete con la salsa di cioccolato: fate sciogliere il cioccolato a bagnomaria con la panna e il cacao. Lasciate intiepidire e versatene poi un lieve strato sulla mousse livellandola (se invece usate gli stampini, versatela alla fine, quando sformate). Tritate lo zenzero candito e terminate la composizione del bicchierino sprinkle with a few flakes of chocolate.