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Title: Smoked Salmon and Salmon Mousse Terrine with Choupict Ca
Categories: Smoke Fish Caviar Salmon
Yield: 1 Servings
| 2 1/2 | lb | Smoked salmon |
| 1/2 | lb | Clarified butter |
| 3/4 | c | Heavy cream |
| Juice of one lemon | ||
| 1 | tb | Chopped fresh dill |
| 1 | tb | Chopped fresh parsley |
| 1 | tb | Chopped fresh chives |
| Salt and white pepper | ||
| 7 | oz | Choupit caviar |
| 4 | Toast points (triangles | |
| Tossed in olive oil and | ||
| Seasoned and browned) |
2 tablespoons finely chopped parsley Chervil sprigs
Lightly oil a terrine mold. Line the mold with plastic wrap. In a food processor, puree 1 1/2 pounds salmon, clarified butter, and cream. Puree until smooth. Turn the mixture out into a mixing bowl. Stir in the lemon juice and chopped herbs. Season with salt and pepper. Line the prepared mold with 1/2 pound of the smoked salmon.
To assemble, spread 1/3 of the mousse evenly over the smoked salmon. Smear the mousse with the caviar. Lay 3 ounces smoked salmon over the caviar. Repeat layering until 6 total layers are present. Wrap the mold tightly and refrigerate for 24 hours. Remove the mold and invert the mold onto a platter. Place a couple of slices of the terrine on a plate. Serve the terrine with toast points. Garnish with chopped parsley and chervil sprigs.
Yield: 12 servings
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Twinkies
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"Twinkies" are an American snack cake produced by a huge baking corporation. They are a plain yellow sponge cake, 6 inches long by 2 inches wide by 2 inches high containing a "creme" filling in the manner of a Berliner donut. Twinkies are bland and sweet, and incredibly popular - not too long ago I read some sort of market study that showed Twinkies to be the top-selling snack cake in the US.
More than you wanted to know about Twinkies: They were invented as an experiment. In the 1930's, the president of the company that now produces Twinkies was upset because the company owned thousands of cake pans that were used to make small, single-serving sized yellow sponge cakes, but the pans were only used extensively for six months a year: Strawberry season. The bakery would turn out hundreds of thousands of small cakes to be used as a base for strawberry "shortcake." Then strawberries would go out of season and the sponge cake pans would be relegated to the storage rooms and the bakery would return to other, non-seasonal production.
One of the bakers took some leftover sponge cakes and piped them full of "creme". No one who tried them could get enough of them, and the Twinkie was born. From: Sylvia Steiger Date: 30 Sep 97 National Cooking Echo Ä
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