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Piena zupa ar pomeranču ziediem

Milk soup with orange blossom and almonds

  • Serves 6
  • about 45 minutes
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1796Peena suppe ar pommeranzu seedeem.

Modernizētslpp. 319–320 · PDF 333–334
6 porcijas

The book gives half a cup of orange blossoms, 1 stops of milk, 4 loti each of sweet and bitter almonds, half a spoon of starch and 2 eggs, which converts to 1.275 l of milk and 52 g each of sweet and bitter almonds; the sugar and cream are unmeasured.

Method

6 soļi
  1. Bring the milk and sugar to the boil. If you have blossoms, add them, simmer for 2 minutes and strain through a fine sieve. If not, leave the flower water until step 5.
  2. Pound the almonds with the flower water to a fine paste, or blend them with the cream. Mix with the cream and the bitter almond extract and stir into the milk. Bring back almost to the boil.
  3. Whisk the starch with 3 tbsp cold milk and the yolks. Whisk in a ladle of the hot soup, pour it back into the pan and stir over low heat for 2–3 minutes, until slightly thickened (85–90 °C; the starch protects the yolks).
  4. Whisk the whites to stiff peaks.
  5. Take the pan off the heat. Stir in the flower water now if you didn't use blossoms. Fold the whites into the hot soup, or drop them on top in spoonfuls, cover and leave for 2–3 minutes so they set.
  6. Serve in bowls, sprinkled with plenty of sugar and cinnamon.

Notes

What the book says vs. what we added

the method is the book's: white orange blossoms boiled in milk with a good piece of sugar and strained; sweet and bitter almonds pounded with orange-flower water, mixed with cream and added; when it starts to boil, thickened with fine white starch, milk and 2 egg yolks; the whites beaten to snow and added last; served with plenty of sugar and cinnamon. The extract, the amounts of sugar and cream, the temperatures and times are ours.

Bitter almonds

the book uses as many bitter almonds as sweet ones, about 52 g or 50 kernels. Bitter almonds release hydrogen cyanide: a handful eaten raw can make an adult seriously ill, and 50 can kill. Boiling reduces the risk but doesn't remove it reliably. Use a few drops of extract instead, and don't swap in apricot kernels, which contain the same toxin.

Orange blossoms

pomeranču means bitter (Seville) orange, which a manor could grow in an orangery. Fresh blossoms are hard to find; orange-flower water gives the same scent.

Egg whites

folded into the hot soup, the whites only half cook. For pregnant women, small children, older people and anyone with weak immunity, poach the spoonfuls of white in the simmering soup for 2–3 minutes a side until firm, or use pasteurised egg white.

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