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Chocolate Sauce | Basic Pastry |
You can makea delicious chocolate sauce in your | This isthe basic dough forpies, tartsand quiches. |
workbowl in 1 minute! No moreworriesabout melting |
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chocolate on top ofthestove. |
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INGREDIENTS
5ounces
1/4 cup
1/3 cup water, heated to boiling
7/8 cupyield
Use metal bladeto chop chocolateand sugar until coarsely chopped, about 6 pulses. Then process continuously until chopped to a fine powder, about 60 seconds. With machine running, slowly pour hot water through feed tube. Process until chocolate melts, about 45 seconds, stopping once to scrape down bowl.
Mint variation: Add 1 tablespoon of peppermint extract, creme de menthe or peppermint schnapps to waterafter it is heated.
Raspberry Sauce
A fine finish for any fruit orchocolate dessert: ice cream, sherbet or cake. You can substitute strawber ries for the raspberries.
INGREDIENTS
1
1tablespoon honey
1cupyield
Use metal blade to puree raspberriesand honey for 30 seconds. Transfer to fine sieve over bowl. Press solids through with back of spoon and discard seeds in sieve. Serve at room temperature orwarm slightly to serve over ice cream.
INGREDIENTS
1stickvery cold unsalted
butter, in 1- inch pieces
1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 cup ice water
111-inchpieshell
Use metal blade to processflour, butterand salt until mixture is likecoarse meal, about 8 seconds. Add ice waterand pulse until dough begins to clump together. Do not let itform a ball. Put dough in a plastic food storage bag. Work through bag to press dough together intoa ball, then a flat disc.
Refrigerate dough forat least 1 hour.
Roll dough on lightly floured surface to a circleabout 1/8 Inch thick. Press into place in pie pan. Use kitchen shears to trim dough, leaving
Preheat oven to 400°F 15 minutes before baking.
Line pie shell with parchment paper and fill it with uncooked beans or rice. Bake it for 12 minutes. Remove paper, beans or rice, prick shell again and bake it6 minutes longer, or until it is lightly browned. Remove shell from pan and let cool on wire rack.
Fruit Tart:
To make a