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UCO Play and Freeze Ice Cream Maker
Reviewed (Verdict: It Makes Ice Cream)
UCO Play and Freeze Ice Cream Maker
Reviewed (Verdict: It Makes Ice Cream)
06/24/2005 04:01 PM
It's going to be 95
degrees—Fahrenheit, you Euro-hippies lovely
Europeans [Joel pointed out I'm mean to Europe. It's because I want to
go back there so badly. And we always strike out at the things we
love, don't we - John]—this weekend so here's a bit of fun for
you and your dirty friends. The CO Play and Freeze, which I actually
received from some friends, is kind of a soccer ball that makes ice
cream. You put ice and salt in the outer ball and a lot of cream and
stuff inside the metal canister. Then you kick it around until you get
a semi-solid lump of frozen cream stuff. It's a nice little bit DIY
although it doesn't store very well and often falls onto my head when
I open the closet.
UCO
Play and Freeze Ice Cream Maker Review [Pocket-Lint]

Stop neurotic submenus from disappearing
Stop neurotic submenus from disappearing
09/20/2004 12:15 PMThis is a pretty minor hint, but it saves a lot of frustration for
people like me who still can't keep the crayon between the lines. It
used to be that whenever I was trying to select an item in a submenu
(like "Recent Files...
LRB | Steven Shapin : The Great Neurotic
Art
LRB | Steven Shapin : The Great Neurotic
Art
08/16/2004 08:37 AMThe Great Neurotic Art" .. London Review of Books .. from a Harvard
meeting .. as literature ..
more»
lrb.co.uk/v26/n15/shap01_.html
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Neurotic Fishbowl: Burn It - The Spring
2004 Edition
Neurotic Fishbowl: Burn It - The Spring
2004 Edition
05/06/2004 03:13 AMKymberlie's Spring 2004 CD Swap, .. Burn
It
neuroticfishbowl.com/archives/002655.html
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When Brooklyn goes to college
When Brooklyn goes to college
01/23/2004 09:49 PMThe BBC's Mike Baker looks at how universities might be run in 2020.
Brooklyn (pretty much) Rules
Brooklyn (pretty much) Rules
04/21/2004 01:04 PMFt. Greene, Brooklyn. Named for Revolutionary War General Nathaniel
Greene, and one of Brooklyn's most diverse ‘hoods. I love it....
No Sleep 'til Brooklyn!
No Sleep 'til Brooklyn!
04/12/2004 12:45 PM
Annotated Beastie Boys.
THE BROOKLYN RAIL - STREETS
THE BROOKLYN RAIL - STREETS
08/02/2004 01:58 PMAn Anarchist in the Hudson Valley: In Conversation With Peter Lamborn
Wilson
brooklynrail.org/spotlight/july04/wilson.html
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target opens in brooklyn
target opens in brooklyn
07/21/2004 04:36 PMwhat a beautiful fucking mess
Brooklyn residents: just say no to space
elevators!
Brooklyn residents: just say no to space
elevators!
02/01/2005 08:37 PMXeni Jardin:
Boing Boing reader
Max
Clarke says,
Recently on my blog, I put up an image of a mysterious flyer being
posted in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (where, in recent years, community
activists have fought real estate developers' plans to build luxury
high-rises, and the city's plans to site trash facilities and power
plants on the waterfront).
The flyer is a masterful parody of all this. It reads:
"WILLIAMSBURG DOESN'T NEED A SPACE ELEVATOR! The Space Elevator
Will Mean: Less Parking, Weird Ribbon Thing, Constant Loud Whirring
Noise, Increased Space Elevator Truck Traffic. Developers have
submitted plans to build a massive space elevator in Williamsburg!
This monstrosity, completely out of context with existing development
in the neighborhood, will be accessible only to the wealthy, forcing
thousands of average Williamsburgers from their homes and live-work
spaces! Jobs the elevator will generate (operators, repairmen,
astronauts) are certain to go to non-residents! Don't sit idly by and
let this elevator cast its impossibly long, cold, and very narrow
shadow over our homes! CALL 311 AND TELL THEM 'I JUST DON'T NEED THIS
SPACE ELEVATOR!'"
The flyer is credited to F.E.T.S.E.o.t.N (Fight Extremely Tall Space
Elevators on the Northside), and includes the URL of an
anti-space-elevator-in-Williamsburg Yahoo group.
Link. See also this proposed NYC rezoning plan, which includes a
number of proposed 8-35 story luxury complexes in a currently
working-class neighborhood with an average building height of 3
stories.
Link. While this flyer is most certainly a joke, space
elevators are not -- at least for some.
Link (
thanks for the reminder, Dr. Setebos)
Brooklyn Cheese Artist Makes Bed of Ham
(AP)
Brooklyn Cheese Artist Makes Bed of Ham
(AP)
06/03/2004 06:35 PMAP - An artist best known for decorative cheese has broadened his
palette, or palate, to ham. Cosimo Cavallaro, who once repainted a New
York hotel room in melted mozzarella, has covered a bed in processed
ham. "I feel like I am back in my mother's deli," the artist said
Thursday.
Protesters March Across Brooklyn Bridge
(AP)
Protesters March Across Brooklyn Bridge
(AP)
08/28/2004 01:39 PMAP - Thousands of abortion-rights activists marched across the
Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday, the latest in a growing procession of
protests leading up to the Republican National Convention.
RNC protests: Brooklyn Orgastic Politics
Collective
RNC protests: Brooklyn Orgastic Politics
Collective
08/29/2004 02:07 PM
Xeni Jardin:
Color me jaded, but this call for a citywide "quivering saturnalia" to
protest the RNC sounds more like an excuse to perv out in public, and
less like actual political protest. But, hey, what do I know about
Reichian energetics? Fleshbot says,
If the skies are dark over New York City next week during the
Republican National Convention, it may be due to the cloudbusting
efforts of the Brooklyn
Orgastic Politics Collective, who plan to combat the "Deadly
Orgone Energy (DOR)" of Dubya and company with ... uh, something based
on the theories of Wilhelm Reich
("Metaphorically speaking, our September 2nd project will be an
attempt to give the sky a blowjob...")
Link
. Don't forget to wear your tinfoil beanie thong.
Barnaby Whitfield gallery show in
Brooklyn
Barnaby Whitfield gallery show in
Brooklyn
04/19/2005 11:05 AMDavid Pescovitz:
My old friend
Barnaby
Whitfield is a pastel artist in New York City and member of the
prestigious
White Columns
Curated Artist Registry. Barnaby's solo exhibition "Whore With Red
Cheeks" opens this Friday, April 22, at the
31GRAND gallery in Brooklyn's
Williamsburg:
An unabashed and unapologetic pastel artist with an obsessive nature
toned in kitsch and pith; Whitfield creates a personal mythology
within an art historical context.
Growing up the child of a politician and an educator in south Florida,
Whitfield found himself at the age of 6 living in the master suite of
a haunted Antebellum Mansion on an abandoned horse farm. The former
owner, and now ghost, Norma, had succumbed to madness for the last ten
years of her life. It was said she often walked to the end of the
circular drive waving with undergarments fastened to the outside of
her clothes. But it was inside the house that her madness truly
reined, where she had stuffed her rooms with worthless discards.
Whitfield’s family found the former master suite’s, pink
and maroon tiled, bathroom, stuffed with lipsticks even filling the
toilet bowl; permanently streaking it in the waxy reds his Mother and
Father kept in memoriam...
LinkBrooklyn Crosses Bridge Back Into the
Big Time
Brooklyn Crosses Bridge Back Into the
Big Time
01/22/2004 10:20 AMThe borough has a sports identity for the first time since the Dodgers
departed for Los Angeles after the 1957 baseball season.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle Soars Onlilne
Brooklyn Daily Eagle Soars Onlilne
09/20/2004 06:25 AMBrooklyn Daily Eagle Soars Onlilnehttp://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA443919http://eagle.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/Archive/skins/BE/about.htm
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, founded in 1841, had the
distinction of being the most widely read afternoon newspaper in the
U.S. during the Civil War. After it ceased publication in 1955, the
paper's morgue and related files were donated to the Brooklyn Public
Library, but access to this vibrant collection of stories, photos and
illustrations was limited to a few microfilm editions and fewer still
print holdings. In 2001 the Brooklyn Library launched an extensive
digitization project encompassing the years 1841-1902, funded through
a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and beta
testing of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online [
www.brooklynpublicli
brary.org/eagle] began in March 2003. The site was an immediate
hit, accommodating an average of 60,000 visits a month. As expected,
many visitors have used the site to track down genealogical
information, but the library has also used the collection to provide
access to primary documents on Civil War-era Brooklyn and
African-American women's history to K-12 students. The library is now
considering a second project to digitize the 1902-1955 issues, but
must first grapple with the copyright implications for newspapers
printed after 1923, as well as the significant increase in per-issue
page volume in later years. More information on the project can be
found at
Brooklyn DA: Santeria Fails Drug Gang
(AP)
Brooklyn DA: Santeria Fails Drug Gang
(AP)
06/15/2004 09:31 PMAP - As the spiritual adviser to Brooklyn drug dealers, Mercedes
Osario allegedly was paid to warn if police were in their future.
Prosecutors claim her mystical powers failed. Miserably.
"Index for Album BrooklynStores:
Brooklyn Store Fronts"
"Index for Album BrooklynStores:
Brooklyn Store Fronts"
05/29/2004 08:52 PMBrooklyn Museum, Newly Refurbished,
Seeks an Audience
Brooklyn Museum, Newly Refurbished,
Seeks an Audience
04/12/2004 11:19 AMThe museum, led by its director, is changing course, concentrating
almost exclusively on its own backyard the 2.5 million residents of
Brooklyn.
Lenticular art gallery show opens in
Brooklyn April 21
Lenticular art gallery show opens in
Brooklyn April 21
04/19/2005 03:38 AMCory Doctorow:

Brian Loube, an artist who makes political and aesthetic lenticular
and 3D images, is having a show in Brooklyn that opens on April 21,
including "a set of candid street
photographs shot in NYC subways (thanks to Homeland Security, now an
illegal activity) and a newer, larger series of extreme close-ups of
faces locked in an endless loops of sexual pleasure."
Link

Nets Are Sold for $300 Million, and
Dream Grows in Brooklyn
Nets Are Sold for $300 Million, and
Dream Grows in Brooklyn
01/22/2004 04:57 AMA developer who wants to move the New Jersey Nets to Brooklyn agreed
to buy the team for $300 million.
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12/31/2003 09:36 AMA Vim configuration that emulates Mac/Windows text editors.
Cream for Vim 0.29
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Cream CRM 1.0.0
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11/12/2003 06:49 PMA customer relationship management system for media organizations.
Cream for Vim 0.30
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06/17/2004 01:45 AMA Vim configuration that emulates Mac/Windows text editors.
yum ice cream
yum ice cream
12/22/2004 01:58 AM
Ice cream flavors are not what they used to be. A few
years ago, in Nice France, I experienced tasting
lavender, and violet
flavored ice cream, the wonderful flavors just blew me away. Later
on in San Francisco, I found a wonderful
Indian ice
cream parlor, and fell in love with the cardamom, and rose
flavors. When my travels take me back to Japan, I think I will try
to avoid some of these
incredibly strange ice cream flavors. May the Cream Be With You
May the Cream Be With You
06/06/2005 12:08 AM
« A princess cake / prinsessakakku / prinsesstårta in a
Yoda-green marzipan robe. »
I was working hard on my sofa coma on Friday evening by drinking a
beer and scanning my newsfeeds when I saw that someone had made
one of those funny green cakes from possibly the most pointlessly complex cake recipe I've ever seen. One of the
reviewers of the cookbook the recipe was taken from, Birthd
ay Cakes: Recipes and Memories from Celebrated Bakers
concurred with my dim view of the recipe:
Finally, several of the recipes are ridiculously complicated for the
home baker. "The Princess Cake," for example, requires following four
lengthy pages of instructions!
Many of the other reviewers remark at how pretty the book is to look
at which I had to laugh at since you know right there they are just in
it for the picture porn, not the practicality of the recipes. The
princess cake is, in spite of its looks, a simple cake: sponge cake
layered with pastry cream and topped with a marzipan shell. Why on
earth anyone would put themselves through such torture for something
that should be rather simple? I was surprised the recipe didn't also
encourage the baker to make their own raspberry jam from hand-picked
organic berries or grind their own flour. It's a bad recipe if only
for the silly rum 'moistening' solution for the cake since it boils
off the alcohol in the rum and then adds more sugar to, perhaps they
forget, distilled cane sugar. If the cake wasn't bone dry in the first
place it wouldn't be necessary but not only that, rum is not a flavour
associated with traditional cakes in the Nordic countries. If you want
rum flavour, add a bit of extract to the cream or just brush some of
the dark rum right onto the cake. If you've got a good bottle of
Meyer's Dark Rum and feel the urge to boil it, please come to my house
and don't forget to bring the bottle. :) The Finnish recipes
occasionally mention using a wee bit of orange juice for the same
purpose but it seems highly optional and up to the discretion of the
baker.
So, I went hunting for a recipe since I see these cakes all the time
but, aside from getting intense flashbacks to Hostess
Snoballs, I've never actually tried one. It's also a cake I can
share without regret since I'm not overly fond of marzipan. :) The
cake was invented/created in the 1930s by Jenny Åkerström who ran
a cooking school for young ladies. She named her creation after the
Swedish princesses Margaretha, Märtha and Astrid though it's not known
if they enjoyed the cake or not. It appeared in Finland not long after
it became popular in 1930s Sweden and has remained a traditional cake
ever since, particularly for graduation and end of school year
parties. The cake may also be known as the operatårta.
Surprisingly, online there are more recipes for the cake in Finnish
than there are in Swedish. And one of the MTV3
cooking shows featured a princess cake recently as well. None of
my cookbooks at home had a recipe for it and I even went looking
through the cookbooks at Akateeminen and found only two books that had
a recipe and neither of them looked very good. I compared all the
recipes I could find online and there was little difference save for
the cream where there were two camps: pastry cream and plain whipped
cream with one Swedish oddball using both mixed together. I turned to
CI to compare both the sponge cake and pastry cream recipes and they
featured the same ingredients only with far more detailed instructions
and perfected technique so I used theirs instead. The sponge cake
recipe is ace and, since such cakes are common components in Finnish
desserts, I can't recommend it highly enough as it was tasty, moist
and spongy just as a good cake of its kind should be.
There are also a few different styles of cake construction. Two
layers or three layers, round or rectangular log,
cream dome or sponge cake covering the dome as the top layer. It
doesn't seem to matter as long as all of the key ingredients are
there. The log looks interesting and easier to slice, but getting a
sponge cake to bend like that without breaking or popping out of shape
would require a few tricks I suspect.
The cream filling is where things get a bit dodgy in many of the
recipes since the instructions are vague and don't mention the time
needed. I tried the Swedish version of the pastry cream which featured
gelatin as a thickener and, from a structural standpoint, I thought it
might be the most successful at providing needed firmness to hold the
shape of the cake. It eventually set, but the directions were limited
and somewhat misleading. The pastry cream should be made the night
before as it needs five hours or more to set. It's not difficult to
make and it's good to have one less thing to juggle in the kitchen.
Americans averse to dairy and/or cream could likely just use Cool
Whip™ to replace the pastry cream and whipped cream thus making
the cake even easier. We've got so many cream and dairy products that
there must be a state embargo on non-dairy products like Cool
Whip™.
It's all smooth sailing once you've got your cake layers, pastry
cream, jam and marzipan all ready to go. Unless you've got some
complex about using organic almonds, don't make the marzipan yourself
as it's ready-made in all the usual colours for far less money than
all the time and effort you would spend making it. The only drawback
to using prepared marzipan is that it can be somewhat dry which makes
manipulating it an exercise in patience. It also makes your life
easier if you have 2 or preferably 3 round cake pans since this
reduces the number of cakes you have to cut from a larger one. I like
chocolate layer cakes so I've learned to make my life easier by making
the layers at bake time since I suck at slicing cakes evenly or
unevenly.
So that's all there is to it. Follow the recipes and make your own
princess cake for a graduation party instead of paying 40 euro or so
for one from a bakery in town. The 30 euro you save can buy a
reasonable amount of beer instead. :)
Prinsesstårta / Prinsessakakku / Princess Cake
makes: 1 cake with 12 servings
special tools: good mixer for whipping, round cake pan[s], pizza
cutter
time: about 2 hours total preparation time for cake, cream and
marzipan
Preparation steps and approximate time
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Prepare pastry cream (if using), make it the night before or before
leaving for work in the morning. (30 mins)
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Make sponge cake. (45 mins)
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Make whipped cream and rahka cream (if using).(20 mins)
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Assemble cake and chill. (10 mins)
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Roll out marzipan. (15 mins)
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Cover cake with marzipan. (15 mins)
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Chill and serve. (1-2 hours)
Sponge Cake:
makes: two 8- or 9-inch cakes
time: about 45 minutes
source: CI
Sift together
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1/2 cup or 1,25 dl cake flour
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1/4 cup or 0,75 dl unbleached all-purpose flour
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1 teaspoon baking powder
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1/4 teaspoon table salt
Heat together, cover and set aside
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3 tablespoons whole milk
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2 tablespoons unsalted butter
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1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract or vanilla sugar
separate and mix
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5 eggs room temperature
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3/4 cup or 1,75 dl granulated sugar
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Adjust oven rack to lower middle position and heat oven to
350F/175C degrees. Generously grease and flour
two or three round 8- or 9-inch cake pans and cover pan bottoms
with a round of parchment paper. Whisk flours, baking powder, and salt
in a medium bowl (or sift onto waxed paper). Heat milk and butter in a
small saucepan over low heat until butter melts. Remove from heat and
add vanilla; cover and keep warm.
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Separate three of the eggs, placing whites in bowl of standing
mixer fitted with whisk attachment (or large mixing bowl if using hand
mixer or whisk) and reserving the 3 yolks plus remaining 2 whole eggs
in another mixing bowl. Beat the 3 whites on high speed (or whisk)
until whites are foamy. Gradually add 6 tablespoons of the sugar;
continue to beat
whites to soft, moist peaks. (Do not overbeat.) If using a
standing mixer, transfer egg whites to a large bowl and add yolk/whole
egg mixture to mixing bowl.
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Beat yolk/whole egg mixture with remaining 6 tablespoons sugar.
Beat on medium-high speed (setting 8 on a KitchenAid) until eggs are very thick and
a pale yellow color, about 5 minutes (or 12 minutes by hand). Add
beaten eggs to whites.
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Sprinkle flour mixture over beaten eggs and whites; fold very
gently 12 times with a large rubber spatula. Make a well in one side
of batter and pour milk mixture into bowl. Continue folding until
batter shows no trace of flour, and whites and whole eggs are
evenly mixed, about 8 additional strokes.
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Immediately pour batter into
prepared baking pan[s][makes 9-10dl of batter so ~3dl per cake
layer]; bake until cake tops are light brown and feel firm and spring
back when touched, about 16 minutes for 9-inch cake pans and 20
minutes for 8-inch cake pans.
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Immediately run a knife around pan perimeter to loosen cake. Cover
pan with large plate. Using a towel, invert pan and remove pan from
cake. Peel off parchment. Re-invert cake from plate onto rack. Repeat
with remaining cake[s]. Cover with clean cloth until ready to assemble
cake to keep the cake moist. **If assembling the cake with the cake
layer on top style, you may want to place a layer of cake over a
bowl about the size of the cake while it is still warm to make it
easier to fit over the cream later.
Pastry cream:
time: about 30 mins - Make at least 5 hours ahead or the night
before!
source: CI
Heat until simmering/near boiling
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2 cups or 2,25 dl half-and-half (half whole milk, half cream)
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1/2 cup or 1,25dl granulated sugar
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pinch table salt
Whisk together until thick
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5 large egg yolks, chalazae removed*
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3 tablespoons cornstarch or arrowroot
Stir in last
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4 tablespoons unsalted butter (cold), cut into 4 pieces
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1,5 teaspoons vanilla extract or 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar
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Heat half&half, 6 tablespoons sugar, and salt in medium
heavy-bottomed saucepan over medium heat until simmering (near
boiling), stirring occasionally to dissolve sugar.
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Meanwhile, whisk egg yolks in medium bowl until thoroughly
combined. Whisk in remaining 2 tablespoons sugar and whisk until sugar
has begun to dissolve and mixture is creamy, about 15 seconds. Whisk
in cornstarch until combined and mixture is pale yellow and thick,
about 30 seconds.
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When half&half mixture reaches full simmer, gradually whisk
simmering half-and-half into yolk mixture to temper. Return mixture to
saucepan, scraping bowl with rubber spatula; return to simmer over
medium heat, whisking constantly, until 3 or 4 bubbles burst on
surface and mixture is thickened and glossy, about 30 seconds. Off
heat, whisk in butter and vanilla. Transfer mixture to medium bowl,
press plastic wrap directly on surface, and refrigerate until cold and
set, at least 3 hours or up to 48 hours.
*Chalazae are cordlike strands of egg white protein that are
attached to the yolks--removing them with your fingers is easy and
eliminates the need to strain the pastry cream after cooking.
rahka-Fraîche Cream:
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250g plain lowfat rahka
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250g vanilla fraîche 5%
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about 1-2 dl fine sugar
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1-2 tablespoons cornstarch or arrowroot
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whip together rahka and fraîche
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add sugar to suit your taste
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add cornstarch if a bit too moist
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mix half of the rahka cream with the whipped cream
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refrigerate
note: since neither of these products are likely available to people
outside the Nordic region or the EU, they are basically thick sour
milk products that might be substituted by using thick vanilla yogurt
and lowfat sour cream.
Whipped Cream:
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1 teaspoon vanilla extract or 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar
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1/3 cup or 0,75 dl confectioners' sugar (use half of sugar if you
prefer less sweetness)
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3,5 dl or 1.5 cups heavy cream
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Beat cold heavy cream at medium speed in an electric mixer until
thickened. Add confectioners' sugar and vanilla and beat until thick.
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pastry cream or rahka cream
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whipped cream
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raspberry jam or low-sugar/just fruit jam for less sweetness
There are two methods of assembly: the cream dome on top
method:
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Slice cake to create 3 evenly sized layers unless you bake with 3
round pans in which case you already have three cakes ready to use.
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Place the first layer on top of a sheet of baking paper and spread
a thin layer of
raspberry jam on top of the cake.
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Spread a layer
of pastry cream/rahka cream on top of the jam and place another cake layer on
top and repeat jam and cream application.
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Place the third cake layer on
top and with a serrated knife, trim
off edge to round off the top. Mound the whipped cream on top of the
cake and smooth with a spatula. You can also mix part of the
remaining pastry cream with the whipped cream if you like. Coat the
sides of the cake if you have any cream leftover as well.
-
Lift cake onto a plate or baking tray and chill in the refrigerator
while you prepare the marzipan shell.
and the cake layer
on top method:
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Slice cake to create 3 evenly sized layers unless you bake with 3
round pans in which case you already have three cakes ready to use.
-
Spread a layer
of pastry cream/rahka cream on top of the jam. Place the second
cake layer over the cream and make a dome of the whipped
cream/rahka-whipped cream mix leaving a thin margin around the edge
for where the top layer will rest on the lower layers.
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Remove the third cake layer from the bowl and spread a very thin
layer of jam on top which will serve to anchor the marzipan to the
cake. Place the cake layer on top over the cream and smooth into a
rounded shape. Witha serrated knife, trim off edge to round off the
top if necessary.
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Lift cake onto a plate or baking tray and chill in the refrigerator
while you prepare the marzipan shell.
Marzipan shell:
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350-400g or 14oz green (or pink or yellow) marzipan
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confectioners' sugar
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Roll marzipan between 2 sheets of baking paper or plastic wrap so
that it doesn't stick to your rolling pin. Mark center of the marzipan
and remove it from the baking paper. Dust rolling pin with
confectioners' sugar and roll part of the marzipan onto it to make it
easier to maneuver the marzipan on top of the cake.
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Cover
the cake with the marzipan. At this point, the dome of the cake
will be smoothly covered, but there will be folds or creases on the
sides. To remove the folds and creases, smooth the marzipan gently
with your hand from the top of the cake to the bottom. This requires
some patience so don't try to rush it.
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Work your way around the cake. Once all the folds are eliminated,
rub the palm of your hand around the sides of the cake to further
smooth it and eliminate air pockets.
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With a rolling pizza cutter or small, sharp knife, carefully cut
off the excess marzipan along the bottom edge. Reserve excess for
making leaves.
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Dust top with confectioners' sugar. You can make a stencil for the
confectioners' sugar to decorate with a crown or add a single
marzipan/real rose on top.
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If you choose a rose as garnish, cut two or three elongated ovals
out of the remaining marzipan to make leaf shapes. Lightly score the
top of the leaves with a knife to create veins and place on top of the
cake. Garnish with real pink rose or make your own marzipan
rose.
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Chill until serving.
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Slice with a
sharp knife with a slow, firm pressure.
Sun-Cream 0.9.1
Sun-Cream 0.9.1
06/15/2004 03:17 PMA clean, smooth theme.
A Brooklyn Accent for 2 Queens as Cruise
Ships Quit Manhattan
A Brooklyn Accent for 2 Queens as Cruise
Ships Quit Manhattan
04/16/2005 10:15 AMPassenger and cruise ships will abandon Manhattan and make Brooklyn
their home port next year when the city finishes rebuilding a pier in
Red Hook.
Learning Without Boundaries:
Brooklyn-Based Tutoring Service Offers
It All
Learning Without Boundaries:
Brooklyn-Based Tutoring Service Offers
It All
06/07/2004 02:37 AMGreater Paths, Inc. founded in March 2004 by Crystal Solange Elie,
provides online, email, phone and in-person tutoring. Company launches
its online summer course catalog. [PRWEB Jun 7, 2004]
A Grand Plan in Brooklyn for the
Nets%u2019 Arena Complex
A Grand Plan in Brooklyn for the
Nets%u2019 Arena Complex
12/12/2003 06:52 AMnew sports arena
nytimes.com/2003/12/11/nyregion/11AREN.html
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Japanese Ice Cream
Japanese Ice Cream
07/07/2004 05:48 PMOK, here's one of the reasons I
love Japan: The way they have
no inhibitions about what might go together with something else. How
about Spinach Ice Cream? Or Seaweed Ice Cream? Or how about the Raw
Horse Meat Ice Cream ("with chunks!")?
The Wackier World of Japanese Ice Cream
(Via
Boing Boing. Of course, it's incredibly lame to refer to Boing
Boing, because everybody reads it already, but... well. I just find
this one interesting. :-)
Commando Cream
Commando Cream
04/19/2005 11:03 AM
Need to hide from thermal imaging
cameras or alien predators with heat vision? Sure, we all do. Now a
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"GUINNESS ICE CREAM?"
"GUINNESS ICE CREAM?"
07/25/2004 02:33 PMWE ALL SCREAM FOR ICE CREAM!
WE ALL SCREAM FOR ICE CREAM!
04/27/2004 06:13 AM
Today (April 27th) is FREE ICE
CREAM CONE DAY at Ben & Jerry's. Tomorrow night is
FREE
SCOOP NIGHT at Baskin Robbins.
Ice-cream for red-baiters
Ice-cream for red-baiters
03/19/2003 10:45 PMIce-cream flavors for jingoistic Limbaughites from "Star-Spangled Ice
Cream:"
- I hate the French Vanilla
- Smaller Governmint
- Iraqi Road
- Nutty Environmentalist
All at $20 less per gallon than Ben and Jerry's.
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Adventures in Cream
Adventures in Cream
11/11/2003 08:07 PMAck! Every other pint of heavy whipping cream has this crap called
Carrageenan. For some reason, it gives me a headache. Clover could be
counted on to deliver a quality product, but it's only available at
local Whole Foods stores - one around the corner from my apartment,
and the other sits further down the 101. Either they're temporarily
out of stock, or they're just not interested in keeping my store in
stock. When I went back this afternoon, they had Alta Dena cartons on
the shelf - which were previously known to have carried icky
preservatives. When I inspected the label, the only ingredient was
pure cream. I brewed a pot of coffee to give 'er the taste test, and
this is just disgusting. I'm gonna "have to" drive down the road and
pray that my brand can be found at the next possible grocery location.
I may have to wait until later this evening to leave in order to avoid
traffic congestion. I suppose I could call ahead, but... where's the
fun in that?...
Cream Of The Crop
Cream Of The Crop
02/18/2004 02:35 AMA new Probe Droid has just been launched; this week we're searching
for who collectors think put on the best show at this year's
International Toy Fair? The big apple played host to a ton Star Wars
eye candy, now's your chance to cast a vote for the licensee that
topped the rest. Do you like Hasbro's new packaging, or Master
Replicas AT-AT? Did Code 3's
Slave 1 win your heart, or did
Gentle Giant strike your fancy? Look for the new Probe Droid ballot
now and cast your vote today!
"Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream"
"Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream"
04/27/2004 03:55 PMGrok Description matches for neurotic brooklyn ice cream
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neurotic brooklyn ice cream