Strawberry Marmalade

Strawberry Marmalade

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Ingredients

  • 35 oz 1 kg Strawberries, without stems
  • 35 oz 1 kg Preserving sugar
  • Zest of 1 lemon
  • 4 tsp 2 cl Orange juice

Instructions

  • Wash the strawberries and place in a pot with preserving sugar, lemon zest, and orange juice.
  • Cover and let sit overnight in a cool place.
  • Bring to a boil, stirring constantly, and let boil for 5–7 minutes.
  • Remove from heat and pass through a fine sieve.
  • Fill hot rinsed canning jars with the hot marmalade, close tightly, and put in a cool place.
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Notes & Wine Advice

If you are fond of the typical seedy texture of berry marmalades, you can skip sieving.

Pretty Girls in the Garden

The strawberry is, botanically speaking, a “false fruit,” but it tastes all the more fruity for it. It has a purifying effect on the blood, is anti-inflammatory, and helps digestion. A total of about four hundred varieties of garden strawberries (Fragaria ananassa) of the Rosaceae family are known. Among them is a typical Austrian variation known by the name of “Schöne Wienerin” or “pretty Viennese girl.” In upscale patisseries, highly fragrant little wild strawberries enjoy a particular popularity.
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Cuisine; Austria / European

Blackberry Marmalade

Blackberry Marmalade

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Ingredients

  • 35 oz 1 kg Blackberries
  • 35 oz 1 kg Preserving sugar
  • Zest of 1 orange
  • 4 tsp 2 cl lemon juice

Instructions

  • Wash the blackberries.
  • Place in a pot with preserving sugar, orange zest, and lemon juice.
  • Cover and let sit overnight in a cool place.
  • Then bring to a boil, stirring constantly, and let boil briskly for 5–7 minutes.
  • Remove from heat and pass through a fine sieve.
  • Fill hot rinsed canning jars with the hot marmalade, close tightly, and put in a cool place

Notes & Wine Advice

Blackberries against Sugar

The fruit of the blackberry bush (Rubus fruticosus), which belongs to the rose family, can be found in both wild and cultivated variations. There are styptic, anti-inflammatory, and antidiabetic properties attributed to the blackberry. One of the youngest varieties is the thornlessly cultivated “Thornfree.” The Choctaw, Navajo, and Loch Ness varieties are also particularly delicious
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Cuisine; Austria / European

Kumquats With Star Anise

Kumquats With Star Anise

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Ingredients

  • 16 oz 4–50 g Kumquats
  • 1 cup less 2 tbsp 200 g Granulated sugar
  • ¾ cup 200 ml Water
  • ¾ cup 200 ml Orange juice
  • 2 tsp 1 cl Grenadine
  • Juice of one ½ lemon
  • 4 Star anise fruits
  • ¼ cup 6 cl Grand Marnier
  • 4 tsp 2 cl Jamaica rum
  • 2 tbsp 20 g Cornstarch

Instructions

  • Quickly blanch the kumquats (drop into boiling water) and then shock in ice water.
  • Remove, halve, and pit.
  • Boil the sugar and water for 5 minutes, pour in the orange juice, and boil for a few more minutes.
  • Add lemon juice, grenadine, star anise, and kumquats.
  • Mix the Grand Marnier and Jamaica rum with cornstarch, stir into the ragout, and let boil briefly one more time.

Notes & Wine Advice

The kumquat, which originates in East Asia, is mostly used in the modern patisserie as seasoning and decoration due to its distinctive, delicate bitterness. Kumquats taste best warm, perhaps as a delicious addition to an airy chocolate soufflé.
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Course; Dessert
Cuisine; Austria / European

Cardamom Berries

Cardamom Berries

as an addition to various desserts, such as cream schmarren or chocolate soufflé
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Ingredients

  • ½ cup 125 ml Red wine
  • ½ cup 250 ml Redcurrant juice
  • 3 tbsp Honey
  • 1 tbsp Vanilla pudding mix
  • 4 tsp 20 g Vanilla sugar
  • cup 80 g Granulated sugar
  • 14 oz 400 g Mixed berries (redcurrants, blackberries, raspberries, wild strawberries, or blueberries)
  • 1 tbsp ½ kl Cardamom
  • Pinch of ground ginger
  • 1 tbsp Water

Instructions

  • Boil the red wine with redcurrant juice, honey, granulated sugar, and vanilla sugar, and reduce to half.
  • Stir the vanilla pudding mix with 1tbsp water and thicken the mixture with it.
  • Remove from heat and stir in the berries, cardamom, and ginger.
  • Fill a hot rinsed canning jar, close tightly, and put in a cool place.
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Course; Fruit
Cuisine; Austria / European

Preserved Raisins

Preserved Raisins

Use: as an addition to various warm sweet dishes like kaiserschmarren, but also an ingredient for apple strudel
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Ingredients

  • 35 oz 1 kg Raisins
  • 2 cups 450 g Granulated sugar
  • cup 80 g Vanilla sugar
  • cups 1l White wine
  • 2 Cinnamon sticks
  • Zest of one ½ lemon
  • Zest of one ½ orange
  • ¼ cup 6 cl Port wine
  • ¼ cup 6 cl Rum

Instructions

  • Mix together all the ingredients except the rum and let sit for 24 hours in the refrigerator.
  • Then bring to a boil once and fill hot rinsed canning jars.
  • Heat the rum, light it, and pour over the raisins.
  • Close the jars well.

Notes & Wine Advice

Raisins, Zante Currants, Sultanas

When top confectioners can pick out their raisins, they mostly choose dried wine grapes. They are big, reddish raisins with pits and a thick peel, different in appearance and taste from sultanas and Zante currants.
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Course; Dessert
Cuisine; Austria / European

Preserved Peaches

Preserved Peaches

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Ingredients

  • 35 oz 1 kg Peaches
  • 4 cups 900 g Sugar
  • ¾ cup 200 ml White wine
  • ¾ cup 200 ml Water
  • 2 Cinnamon sticks
  • 5 Cloves
  • 10.5 oz 300 g Glucose syrup (can be substituted with simply syrup, see p. 40)
  • 2 cups 450 ml Whisky (Bourbon)

Instructions

  • Slowly bring the sugar, wine, water, cinnamon, and cloves to a boil.
  • Half and pit the peaches.
  • Blanch the peaches in the slowly boiling mixture and peel off the skin.
  • Let the liquid boil a bit longer, then pass through a sieve and add the sugar syrup and whisky.
  • Put the peaches in hot rinsed canning jars, pour the mixture over them, and place 1 clove and 1 cinnamon stick in each jar.
  • Close the jars tightly.

Notes & Wine Advice

Not just for Melba

The Romans called the juicy peach a Persian apple. Many natural healers still rely on its diuretic and expectorant effects. Master patissiers also swear and swore on it, above all the great Auguste Escoffier, who invented the presumably most famous peach dish: the “Peach Melba,” created for the coloratura soprano Nellie Melba.
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Course; Dessert
Cuisine; Austria / European

Preserved Apricots

Preserved Apricots

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Ingredients

Instructions

  • Cut the apricots in half, blanch in boiling water, shock in ice water, and peel off the skin.
  • Quarter and pit the apricots.
  • Boil the white wine with the sugar, vanilla sugar, vanilla bean, and lemon juice.
  • Add the apricots, remove from heat, and let set.
  • Flavor with apricot Eau de Vie.
  • Fill hot rinsed canning jars.
  • Heat the rum, light it, and cover the apricots.
  • Close the jars tightly.
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Course; Fruit
Cuisine; Austria / European

Preserved Dried Pears And Plums

Preserved Dried Pears And Plums

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Ingredients

  • 18 oz 500 g Dried pears
  • 10.5 oz 300 g Dried plums
  • cup 400 g Granulated sugar
  • 1l Red wine
  • 2 cups 500 ml Water
  • 4 tsp 20 g Vanilla sugar
  • 2 tbsp 1 kl Ground ginger
  • 3 Cinnamon sticks
  • 5 Cloves
  • ¼ cup 6 cl Lavender juice (see p. 205)
  • ½ cup 12 cl Poire Williams

Instructions

  • Boil the red wine, water, cinnamon sticks, cloves, sugar, vanilla sugar, dried pears, and dried plums.
  • Remove from heat and flavor with ginger, lavender juice, and Poire Williams.
  • Fill hot rinsed canning jars and close tightly.

Notes & Wine Advice

The fruit can be thickened to the desired consistency with a bit of cornstarch.

Acidic, Bitter, or What?

The apricot (Prunus armeniaca, Latin for Armenian plum) is native to Europe and is known as an Austrian specialty, but it originally came from Asia Minor. From there, the proto-apricots were spread through Rome by merchants. And the ancient Romans brought the “amerellum” (which, unbelievably, means acidic, sharp, and bitter) north. When Lauriacum was excavated near Linz, ancient apricot pits were found in amphoras. Wachau apricots were first mentioned in writing in 1679. Since then, apricots have become a pillar of Austrian dessert cuisine thanks to apricot dumplings, strudel, cake, and marmalade. (See recipe on p. 188.)
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Course; Fruit
Cuisine; Austria / European

Preserved Rhubarb

Preserved Rhubarb

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Ingredients

Instructions

  • Peel the rhubarbs, cut off the ends, and slice into ½-1 in (1–2 cm) wide pieces.
  • Bring the white wine, water, vanilla sugar, granulated sugar, lemon juice, and vanilla bean to a boil.
  • Place the rhubarb pieces in the boiling liquid and then remove from heat.
  • Chop the lemon balm coarsely and place in a spice bag.
  • Add the spice bag to the rhubarbs, cover with foil, and let sit overnight in a cool place.
  • Remove the spice bag.
  • Fill hot rinsed canning jars, heat the rum, light it, pour over the rhubarbs, and close the jars tightly.

Notes & Wine Advice

The Barbarian Root

The ancient Greeks called this sour stalk—somewhat disrespectfully— “Rha barbarous” or “root of a foreign tuber,” though its delicately bitter taste is perfect for taking the edge off sweetness. Whether in compote or cake, old Viennese dessert cuisine loves the rhubarb, particularly in the time between April and July, as a non-musical counterpoint. After August, rhubarbs should be avoided for health reasons.
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Course; Fruit / Vegetables
Cuisine; Austria / European

Wild Strawberry Coulis

Wild Strawberry Coulis

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Ingredients

  • 18 oz 500 g Wild strawberries
  • ¼ cup 5 cl lemon juice
  • ¼ cup 5 cl Orange juice
  • ½ cup plus 1 tbsp 130 g Granulated sugar
  • 4 tbsp 20 g Vanilla sugar
  • 3 tbsp 4 cl Cognac

Instructions

  • Briefly boil the lemon juice, orange juice, vanilla sugar, and granulated sugar.
  • Mix with half of the wild strawberries.
  • Pass through a fine sieve.
  • Mix in the rest of the strawberries and flavor with cognac.

Notes & Wine Advice

Sweet and Sour Cherries

Sweet cherries are most suited to cherry cakes. The tart form of this beloved stone fruit is the sour cherry, which has many more uses, from sour cherry marmalade to black forest torte as well as gelatin and fruit sauce.
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Course; Fruit
Cuisine; Austria / European