sweet fish.
My expression of the photo says it all: the Carnival for me was and is a pain.
Every year millions of expectations, new dress and then I found myself always at the usual silly costume party for children in the country. : S Maybe Mom and I choose an outfit that is to say with my brother and he constantly took the fever.
Then adolescence, the nightmare for all hormones and uncontrollable rage out of phase ... I came even to disguise as a monster of horror movies (=.=') to express my rebellion ... then turn without a mask because I was always crying all the children! : D
Then I grew up, I got to high school, was dressed as a peasant and Carnival, and other giant carrot costumes rather embarrassing with carnival floats, to please and this 'Another friend of the country ... think that one year my mother was dressed as a very shy Bugs Bunny! OO And then tell us that we love you!
Then the university parties. Nightmare, do not add anything else. The university parties Carnival each year to make me just hate what the university parties of Carnival.
But it must be said that all the ingenuity of the student to find the costumes more brilliant / ridiculous / stupid / low cost to end pay ... buuu rented costumes!
I would say that at this point that I think you understand the Carnival party. It 's like any other day of the year, with the difference that you have to find a Carnival stupid dress that stains, tears, and the maximum if you go Well they recycle it for Halloween!
But that's not all.
Carnival home Cerquetti was also, and above all else.
was alchermes perfume and cream, honey and lemon juice, powdered sugar and toasted almonds.
was the house that grew to 3 days a year a giant oven, stoves with a maximum rise to all the mixes that "slept" in the bedroom Mom and dad, and the deep fryer, alas, in constant use!
Frappe, scroccafuse: grandmother was the queen, sovereign holder of supreme power in the kitchen. As you no! If there was one thing that was good was just pull the dough.
Cicerchiata and donuts: mom at work. It was the hardest work, and if I have to tell the truth, Grandma was eating, but cooking just did not like complicated stuff! Delegated without problems, at least these.
My brother Mark specializes in put her hands smeared everywhere and peel the almonds.
My father ate too much fear in those who advance (=.=).
And I ? Peaches and sweet lemon verbena.
I mean, everyone did their part. It was a ride! I came out tired and happy.
Now that my grandmother is gone, Carnival is no longer the same delusion of three days of hard work in the kitchen. No one has the patience to sit there day in and fry the dough. And no one makes scroccafuse.
And now listen, listen, and reggetevi strong.
HATE fried Carnival! I do not know why, when, as happened, but at best tasting donuts per year, not just because of those I can do without.
One, only one, only one is the cake that I am still anxiously waiting for the carnival. And see if it is not fried .. Apricots or Peaches sweet, call it what you like, stuffed with cream and covered with Alchermes are an innovation made by me, in desperate flight from fried in adolescence.
year, for the first time after she's dead grandmother Sixth helped me my mother that I used to work more "humble" (the fact that it has taken over the kitchen of the home crowd very, very little), aided an afternoon off from work.
Marco , curious as when he was 6 years old, has run ate the cream (and first) while I was helping to fill the peaches, and stole second half of raw fish groped for the desperate attempt to cook in the microwave (quiet, finally gave up the INS about ...).
My father did not eat almonds, so you are limited to steal half of cooked fish and soak in nell'alchermes mo 'a cornet. All health!
And I laughed, to knead (as it seemed easy when he did, Grandma!) And all the hands in red dye.
Although there is no longer my grandmother, is still worthwhile to make the "hard work" Carnival of confectionery ... The air we breathe is still the same.
what he knows and Alchermes cream, honey and lemon juice, powdered sugar and toasted almonds.
This recipe is one I used this year is fantastic. From the book of the series on the gentle "Recipes, Memories, Stories" sisters Di Chiara.
SWEET PEACHES CREAM
Ingredients (for 14-16 peaches, a half-ball 30):
For the peach halves
500 g of flour, about;
2 eggs at room temperature;
3 / 4 cup of milk;
60 grams of butter;
60 grams of cane sugar;
30 grams of yeast;
For the cream filling
500 ml of milk, 3 egg
;
3 tablespoons sugar;
3 heaping tablespoons of flour;
zest of 1 lemon.
To decorate
a glass and a half Alchermes;
1 egg white;
caster sugar, to taste
Take all afternoon, you'll need.
Prepare a first mixture in a bowl with 1 / 3 of sugar, half the milk, warmed, and in which you have melted all the yeast and 1 / 5 of total flour. Make it a round loaf, slit with a knife a cross on top and let rise in a warm place for half an hour, covered with a plate turned upside down.
After the half hour, or when it has reached twice its volume first, prepare the rest of the dough: make a fountain of flour on a pastry board (making sure to leave some 'on the one hand if it were used), add the remaining sugar in the middle, the rest of the milk, eggs slightly beaten and very soft butter into small pieces. Begin to knead, and when it starts to become smooth, add the dough the first batter, into small pieces, one at a time. Handle for a long time until the dough becomes soft cloth. After that make it a gauge stick, put it in a bowl, slit cross and cover the bowl with a thin cloth, soaked in hot water and then wrung out thoroughly.
let rise in warm place for about 1 hour, or at least wait until it doubles in volume.
Meanwhile prepare the cream, which must be very compact. Heat the milk in a saucepan: it will be very hot but not boiling. Meanwhile in a bowl with a whisk, beat the egg yolks with sugar, to make a clear foam. Add a tablespoon of flour at a time, longer if served with hot milk, pour slowly. Add the milk, then pour the cream into a larger pot, add the lemon zest and cook. Let cool.
When the mixture is leavened riprendetelo, not deflate too much.
Make small balls with a diameter of 2-3 cm (regulator of you with its size: I make small and large, it may be more or less), and place them far apart on the baking sheets rectangular covered with parchment paper (or buttered). They must be about thirty half-spheres. Cover with a thin cloth soaked in warm water and then wrung out thoroughly and place them in a warm place to rise.
When they are grown, gently brush the milk, and cook in preheated oven at 150 ° C for 15-20 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool on a wire rack.
When everything is cold, proceed with the assembly.
With the tip of a knife, dug a small hole in each hemisphere. Using a spoon, pour in a little hole 'of Alchermes, wet and all the rest of the base. Fill the hole with a scoop of cream, and even a little spalmatene 'at the base, so the two halves of a peach is "sticking well."
Take a wet mixing together a glass of Alchermes and egg white (will be advanced by the cream!). With the help of the brush, wet the entire fishing outside, and immediately rotolatela in the middle of the granulated sugar, which must adhere perfectly.
Place peaches in prepared cake or a tray of cups of adequate size.
When you eat them, cover with plastic wrap will remain soft for longer!
Then this year I discovered that the fish are also the sweet carnival favorite Michael, my boyfriend, who has my own intolerance for the sweet fried carnival.
I would say was destiny! ^ ^ Carine decorations, right? Peaches seem real! If you want you can use if the host leaves, the ones that you put on cakes ... Since my house just like me, I did not buy at all.
With my beloved Peaches participate in the contest to mix the vegetables together? "And your carnival is?
And as the title says, Francesca asked to describe a scent, a plate, a memory.
E 'is for me like a blast from the past, so I did not think it was more the atmosphere of those days, thanks Frank.
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Besitossss!
Babi