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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

 

chocolate on top ofthestove.

 

INGREDIENTS

5ounces semi-sweetchocolate, broken into 1/2-inch pieces

1/4 cup super-fine sugar

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

110-ounce package frozen raspberries in syrup, thawed

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 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour

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 1-inch overlap beyond pan. Fold overlap under. Pinch crust to form decorative edge. Prick bottom and sides with forkand refrigerate crust for 30 minutes, or until firm.

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 one-crust tart, use a tart pan instead of a pie pan. When cooked shell is thoroughly cool, spread about 1 cup of pastry cream (see recipe) on the bottom. Arrange sliced fresh fruit decoratively on top.

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