
Hidromiel Y Fractal Fluido - Mead And Fractal Fluid
Lemon dessert with honey mead, a masterpiece of molecular gastronomy by the famous Spanish chefs Arzak
02 April, 2012
ingredients
All Purpose Flour
250 g
Butter
125 g, melted
Eggs
1
Egg Yolks
1
Water
5 ml
Sugar
100 g
Tandoori Spices
1,5 g
Sweet Chili Peppers
1,5 g
Carminic Acid
0,5 g
Blue Curaçao
20 g
Apple Syrup
10 g
Lemon Juice
150 g
Lemon Zest
2
Eggs
2
Egg Yolks
2 each
Butter
100 g
Grape Sugar
50 g
Milk
50 g
Cocoa Butter
200 g
Sweet Chili Peppers
3 g
Carminic Acid
0,5 g
Water
500 ml
Honey
100 g
Star Anise
2 pieces
Birch Sugar
100 g
Xanthan Gum
1,5 g
Vodka
10 g
Carminic Acid
1,7 g
Water
5 g
Sugar
2 g
Bitter Cocoa Powder
To taste
Preparation
Step 01
For Broken Base
- Mix all the ingredients and let it sit in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
- Spread the paste on a baking sheet and bake for 80 minutes at 140 Cº.
- Let it cool and then crush it completely.
- Add the curaçao and the syrup to 150 gr of the crushed base.
Step 02
For Lemon “Sculptures”
- Mix all the ingredients well.
- Quickly scald it and then pour the mixture into a cubical Flexipan mould.
- Place in freezer.
- Once thickened, cut it in half, giving it an undulated shape.
- Keep in freezer.
Step 03
For Exterior Of The Lemon “Sculptures”
- Melt the butter at a temperature lower than 50°C.
- Add the sweet chilli pepper and the carminic acid.
- Sprinkle it with frozen lemon, with the help of a hypodermic needle so as to create a thin exterior.
- Let it sit in the refrigerator.
Step 04
For Mead Base
- Scald the honey and water mixture; add the star anice and let it infuse for 5 minutes.
- Let cool.
- Mix the remaining ingredients, beating well with a whisk.
- Let it rest in the refrigerator for 6 hours to eliminated any excess air.
Step 05
For Mead Reactor
- Mix together all the ingredients.
Step 06
To finish
- Sprinkle the lemon-based “sculptures” with cocoa powder, which will give it a coppery look.
- Place the broken base on a flat surface or serving plate.
- Then add the lemon sculptures, in a vertical manner (2 per person).
- To finish, pour 50 gr of mead.
- The server will then add a full teaspoon of reactor that will then produce a kind of fractal reaction.
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