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Sunday 15 May 2011

Random Recipe - Just Desserts

The Random Recipe challenge at Belleau Kitchen challenges you to dip into your cookery book collection  and randomly pick a recipe on a particular theme.  This is what Dom says "the rules are simple... take all your dessert, chocolate, cake, sweet or pudding based cook books, place them in a pile and randomly select one book... from this book, flip it open to a random page and bake that exact recipe.."


 I have  a lot of cookery books, so I picked out 12 that contain dessert recipes and piled them up, then I did a random number generator and it came out with number 9.  Number 9 was Seasonal Cookery by Claire Macdonald of Macdonald.
Claire Macdonald is probably one of the best dessert recipe writers I know, her Chocolate Pavlova is beyond belief and her Bramble Mousse is divine.  But this had to be random.


The difficulty with this book is that the desserts are not all at the end of the book as it is organised by month!  So it took me a few random openings to find a dessert.  It turned out to be in July and was a simple 'Strawberries with Lemon Syllabub'.

It is the start of strawberry season so ideal for this recipe which was absolutely delicious, the sweetened cream with lemon juice and rind as well as a little wine was the perfect complement to the strawberries. I can thoroughly recommend it!

Strawberries with Lemon Syllabub

Serves 6
8ox (250g) fresh strawberries
1/2 pint (300ml) double cream
juice and grated rind of 2 lemons
1 sherry glss of white wine
2oz (50g) caster sugar


Slice the strawberrries and divide between 6 glasses.  Whip the cream, gradually adding the lemon juice, rind, white wine and sugar.  When the cream mixture is thick, spoon over the sliced strawberries in the glasses, and stir the strawberries up through the lemon syllabub.  Chill several hours before serving.



We had this over two evenings and the syllabub was definitely better on the second night when the lemon flavour had really merged with the cream, so I would recommend a long chilling time.
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posted by Janice @ 19:23

8 Comments:

At 15 May 2011 at 19:59 , Blogger Unknown said...

oh I love this kind of dessert, bet they tasted amazing!!!... thanks so much for taking part, hope you had fun x

 
At 15 May 2011 at 20:24 , Blogger Chele said...

Sounds lush and as you say just perfect for this time of year. My mouth is watering just thinking about it!

 
At 16 May 2011 at 20:16 , Anonymous Jill Colonna said...

Oh creamy strawberries and lemon. Sounds lovely and with the wine in there, too - must be lovely. Great idea doing a random recipe like this!

 
At 17 May 2011 at 19:37 , Blogger Unknown said...

Gorgeous pic - I've never heard of Claire Macdonald, must look her up (or you could post more of her recipes!)

 
At 17 May 2011 at 22:10 , Blogger Phil in the Kitchen said...

Love the sound (and look) of this. Think I might go and read this recipe to my strawberry plants as a sort of encouragement to produce plenty of fruit.

 
At 1 June 2011 at 17:11 , Blogger Ma What's 4 dinner said...

Looks delicious and the presentation is stunning. Well done. Can't wait to poke around your bloggie kitchen some more!

Lots of yummy love,
Alex aka Ma What's For Dinner
www.mawhats4dinner.com

 
At 1 June 2011 at 18:53 , Blogger Unknown said...

Very pretty and nice to have a non cake dessert!

 
At 4 October 2011 at 16:24 , Anonymous Food Safety Certification said...

Simple but a really tasty dessert! I'm looking forward this coming weekend to make this. Thanks for sharing!

 

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