Charlotte Twin Quasi- Quack! ...
this ... Once I dedicated myself to a couple of variants of Charlotte Graziella I had already posted, this is a cake that uses a base of lemon custard, a "cover" of fruit (oranges in the original) and ladyfingers soaked in the juice of the same fruit.
Both versions today use the same lemon custard:
- 500 ml.
- milk 3 egg yolks
- 175 gr.
- sugar 75 gr. flour 1 lemon
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For the preparation I put in warm milk in a saucepan, I paid three egg yolks and sugar in a bowl and milled fork until creamy, then I slowly built warm milk and flour, stirring with a blender whips, after I spilled the mixture into the pan, I cut in half the lemon (lavato!) and I stuck with a fork (the cut side down) and with a fork "lemonade "I mixed the cream until it thickens. Just before I took off the stove and I was half a lemon squeezed (through a strainer) finally giving the cream a good stir.
The first variant:
Charlotte Strawberry
- 2 baskets of strawberries
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- sugar to taste 2 lemons 1 package of ladyfingers
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I started cutting the first basket of strawberries and preparing, essentially a small bowl of strawberries with lemon, strawberry pieces in practice, a lot of sugar, the juice of two lemons, a nice mixed and 5 / 6 hours to macerate the strawberries and release their juice.
The second basket of strawberries were hand sliced \u200b\u200band used to line the bowl.
All unused bits of strawberry after slicing were added to a bowl of strawberries with lemon.
After 5 / 6 hours to macerate I poured the lemon juice and strawberries in a dish, but now ... the problem! ... How to remove "seeds" of the strawberry juice? (Of course if your "guinea pigs"-hehe! - Not like them) ... Simple ... you pass the juice through a strainer ... But the strawberries .. and used to extract the juice? I wanted to use anyway, but if I blend the "seeds" could break off and pass leads through the strainer (and get whipped in the guinea pigs picky? Had a chance ...: P) ... Instead, I shrunk the remaining strawberries , I mashed with a potato masher and I finally passed through a sieve all getting a little more 'juice strawberries.
Then I poured the juice into a dish and I soaked ladyfingers with whom I made the "second layer" of coverage before filling with cream.
Warning! This variant is addictive!
The second variant: Charlotte d 'Ananas
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- 1 pineapple 1 package of ladyfingers (or sponge)
I always thought the pineapple, with its slightly sour flavor, it could adapt to this sweet, but could not find an idea for the juice with which to wet the sponge ... until my mother gave me a juicer for fruits and vegetables ... hehe! ... so ... dive on the stove!
I peeled the pineapple and I sliced, I removed the central part of "woody" (thrown into the spin) and I cut the rest of the slices with a tocchettini I lined the inside of the bowl (I could also leave the slices whole, but then it would have been a problem before serving portions ... making tocchettini not likely to finish the whole slice on one side and nothing on the other). Line the bowl has required 2 / 3 pineapple, the remaining third has been spun mercilessly.
Then I poured the pineapple juice in a dish and I would have soaked ladyfingers with which to make the "second layer" of coverage before filling with cream ... ... I would ... ... Except that the box of biscuits that I had from a cut and they were all fossilized! ... Desperate last dispensation, ruffled feathers, beak wide open and bloodshot eyes falling on a spare box of cake ... so ... ahem ... I "modified" the recipe in the race.
Both variants are, of course, by himself in his beak with the help of a spoon.