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Cold Peach Pudding

A chilled peach, bread and currant pudding served with sweet mousseline cream.

Method

Steps

  1. Step 1

    Peel and stone twelve good-sized ripe peaches and cut into quarter-inch slices.

  2. Step 2

    Cut the 170 g plain baked white wheat bread remnants into quarter-inch cubes. Gently mix with the peaches and 57 g dried currants.

  3. Step 3

    Lightly butter and sugar a quart pudding mould. Add the fruit mixture, leaving room for custard; refrigerate any surplus at 4 °C or colder.

  4. Step 4

    Whisk four pasteurized whole eggs with 113 g sugar, two tablespoons kirsch and half a teaspoon vanilla.

  5. Step 5

    Gradually whisk in 473 mL pasteurized whole milk and 118 mL pasteurized whipping cream. Whisk for two minutes.

  6. Step 6

    Pour the custard into the same mould without overfilling. Refrigerate surplus separately.

  7. Step 7

    Stand the mould in hot water reaching halfway up its sides.

  8. Step 8

    Bake in a preheated 175 °C conventional oven for about forty minutes, until the pudding is set and reaches 74 °C throughout.

  9. Step 9

    Remove the mould and stand it in cold water and ice reaching halfway up its sides. Cool promptly, then refrigerate at 4 °C or colder until thoroughly cold.

  10. Step 10

    For the sauce, separate two additional pasteurized eggs. Reserve the whites for another use.

  11. Step 11

    Whisk the two yolks with 57 g sugar over gentle heat for about five minutes, until 74 °C, without scrambling.

  12. Step 12

    Remove from the heat and stir over ice until thoroughly cold.

  13. Step 13

    Whip 177 mL cream to a stiff froth. Fold into the cold yolk mixture with half a teaspoon vanilla and whisk for two minutes. Keep at 4 °C or colder.

  14. Step 14

    Unmould the cold pudding onto a cold dish and spoon some of the cold sweet mousseline sauce over it. Refrigerate the remaining sauce separately.

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