Ideal brewing temperature table:
Type | Time | Temperature |
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Black Tea | 100°C | |
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Oolong Tea | 80 – 90°C | |
Green Tea | 70 – 80°C | |
White Tea | 85°C | |
Herbal Teas | 100°C |
recipes
Berry Coulis
Fresh fruit sauce for ice cream,
chocolate cakes...
Ingredients:
½cup of fresh raspberries
½cup of fresh strawberries ¾ cup of sugar
Process the fruit pulp and the sugar in the VillaWare® Blender, and then strain the fruit mix with a sieve.
Pour the fruit mix in the VillaWare® Kettle double boiler, and cook for
Compound Herb Butter
This sauce is very versatile, you can brush over grilled steak, chicken, fish, pork, or even pasta.
Ingredients:
2 sticks of unsalted butter Leaves of 3 rosemary sprigs 3 leaves of sage
4 sprigs of thyme leaves removed off of stem
3 cloves of peeled garlic
10 chives
Melt butter in VillaWare® Kettle double boiler.
Add 3 crushed cloves of garlic and fresh herbs to the butter, and mix them in the VillaWare® Blender on high for 5 seconds.
Pour herbed butter back into double boiler and heat for 5 minutes on high to release the flavour of the herbs.
Molten Amaretto Lava Cake
Top it with berries coulis and ice cream
Ingredients:
140 grams of unsalted butter
280 grams of semi sweet chocolate
170 grams of almond chocolate bar cut into pieces
Pinch of salt
2 tablespoons of cocoa powder
½teaspoon of vanilla extract
½teaspoon of almond extract
2 tablespoons of amaretto liqueur ½ cup of sugar, plus 3 tablespoon
175 grams of egg whites (approximately,
5 large eggs)
½ teaspoon of lemon juice
3 tablespoons of melted butter
Butter 6 ramekins and dust with 3 tablespoons of sugar.
Melt Chocolate and butter together in the VillaWare® Kettle double boiler for 8 minutes on high.
Stir in salt, cocoa and the extracts.
Whip egg whites with ½ a cup of sugar and the lemon juice until medium peaks.
Fold half of the chocolate mixture into the egg whites, and repeat the process with the other half of the mixture.
Fill the buttered/ sugar moulds half way with the chocolate and egg white mixture, and add a piece of the chocolate bar.Top with 1 tablespoon of chocolate mixture.
Place the ramekins on a baking sheet and bake at 200º C degrees for 12 minutes (if you want a softer lava cake, bake it for only 10 minutes). Serve immediately with ice cream and fresh berry coulis.
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