TIRAMISOU
“Pick me up”
CREAM
½ pound mascarpone cheese
½ liter whipping cream
COFFEE MIXTURE
4 tbs instant Nescafe or espresso
1 liter fresh milk
4 Tbs coffee or chocolate liqueur
36 “lady fingers” or “savoyardi” cookiesor 1 pound of cookies
1 cup cocoa powder
In a clean mixing bowl whip the cream with 1tbs of powder sugar until it is very thick. Do not over beat as it will turn into butter!! Fold into cream room temperature mascarpone cheese. In a second bowl mix the milk with coffee and liqueur.
You will now need a pyrex pan about 9X13 in.
To assembly the dessert you start by dipping, not soaking!!, very fast the cookies into the milk coffee mixture. Cover the bottom of the pan by layering the cookies next to each other and spread half of the cream. Continue with a second layer of cookies and finish by spreading the rest of the cream on top. Refrigerate and when ready to serve generously dust through a fine sieve the cocoa powder. Only good comments and compliments are echoing as your family and guests get to taste the “pick me up” dessert. This is what “ti ra misou” means in Italian. A little help with the coffee, the liqueur and the cocoa certainly can “pick you up”…anytime, anyplace.
In case you feel like making your own savoyardi cookies here is the recipe since they can be used for a tea party and other occasions as well…eating occasions I mean. You will need:
6 egg yolks
½ cup sugar
3 egg whites
¼ cup + all purpose flour
Whip the yolks with ¼ cup of sugar until they hold stiff peaks. Continue by whipping the egg whites with another ¼ cup of sugar until they get pale and light. Fold the two mixtures by folding in the flour through a fine sieve. On buttered baking paper shape long cookies by dipping a wet spoon into the mixture. You cannot hold this dough, it is very light and wet. There are special molds to be filled that give a better looking cookie. Bake in 350 degree preheated oven for 20-25 minutes. Before baking sprinkle with sugar. Allow to cool and can be kept into a air tight container for up to two weeks once they are cool and dry.
Food for the body, soul and Spirit
- tastetravelswitheleni
- “GREEK DELIGHTS” Food represents one of the most important, yet understated activities in our lives and our daily practice. It is no co-incidence that food is the quantum essence of hospitality in cultures across the world. This is why cooking is considered as Cultural Heritage. From Eleni’s perspective, food is a more global synergy of factors and actors that fuse to bring us closer to creating and living the sense of taste and communal living. Eleni enacts hospitality through her perseverance in acquiring a fine balance between time, quality products and the creation of an adequate atmosphere so that food may transform itself into speech, heart-opening and the overcoming of cultural barriers. Eleni has functioned as a superb bond that keeps together family, church and community. Alongside her husband Alex and wonderful children Orestis and Danae, she chose to fight life’s adversities with spice and humour. In more depth, Eleni’s cooking is a form of creative prayer and thanksgiving. Created in God’s image, she thinks, forms and creates “Greek delights” for the body, soul and spirit. Enjoy! Dr. Lydia Evdoxiadi Cultural Heritage Consultant
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