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Chef(s) Alain PENOT (Auberge du Lac Saint-Pierre) offer(s) you the following dessert:

Wild ginger and vanilla bean crème brûlée, with buckwheat wafers

Ingredients:

  • 5 egg yolks
  • 225 ml of 35% cream
  • 150 ml of 2% milk
  • 1 vanilla bean
  • 10 g of wild ginger
  • 75 g of sugar

Method:

  • Boil the cream and milk with the wild ginger and the vanilla bean.
  • Strain through a China cap.
  • Pour into ramekins (3/4 full).
  • Cook in a bain-marie: place the ramekins in a pan and pour hot water 3/4 of the way up the ramekins. Cook in the oven for 40 minutes at 170°C or 375°F.
  • Let cool. Sprinkle with sugar and caramelize. Serve quickly.

Buckwheat wafers:

  • 5 egg whites beaten with 215g of icing sugar.
  • Add 125g of softened butter, 80g of flour, and 45g of buckwheat flour.
  • Cook the dough on a sheet of parchment paper, shaping it in the form of a tile.
  • Cook at 375°F for 3 to 4 minutes.
  • Once out of the oven, cut it into the desired shape.

LOCAL PRODUCE Consult our local produce

Wild ginger
It is an herbaceous plant that grows in rich woods, such as maple plantation. Native Americans used the root to flavour foods much as real ginger is used.




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Hôtellerie Champêtre
1255 rue University, bureau 430
Montréal (Québec)
H3B 3B6

Printed on: Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Phone: 514 861-4024
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