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Sorbets (Sherbets)
Sorbets are not meant to wait in hard scoops. Churn this lemon ice only to loose crystals, then serve it between courses while it is bright, tart, and nearly fluid.
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The Moulding of Large and Small Iced Soufflés
A buttered paper collar makes the frozen mousse stand above its timbale like a hot soufflé, while a vanilla pâte à bombe and softly whipped cream keep every spoonful light.
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Pudding Seymour
A frozen French pudding of kirsch-touched brioche, vanilla peaches, ripe William pears, and Bar-le-Duc currants held in a pale pink orgeat pâte à bombe, with every generous layer kept distinct.
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Spooms
Spoom is frozen restraint: Champagne syrup and a doubled measure of Italian meringue, worked just enough to hold a pale, airy froth that settles softly into a chilled glass.
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Marquises
Kirsch sherbet frozen finer and firmer than granité, then folded at the glass with fruit Chantilly: a cold dessert whose pleasure lies in the last-minute contrast of crystals, cream, and ripe fruit.
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Marie-Rose Pudding
Crisp gaufrettes filled with hard strawberry ice form the pink wall around a vanilla-praline bombe, crowned in two-tone Chantilly and served with chocolate ice cream alongside.
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Iced Soufflées
The cold soufflé that teaches sugar work: small-crack syrup streamed into stiff whites, then raspberry purée and cream folded through for a feather-light, rose-pink freeze.
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Preparation for Sorbets
A classical wine-and-citrus sorbet, churned fine, lightened with a quarter its weight of Meringue à l’Italienne (No. 2383), and finished with liqueur only after freezing so it stays soft enough to drink.
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Various Sorbets
One measured method turns clear pineapple, cherry, berry, wine, or liqueur into a bright, fine-grained sorbet, with sugar and alcohol balanced so every batch freezes cleanly and scoops softly.
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Sorbet à la Sicilienne
A green watermelon, chilled through and opened before service, holds ruby pulp loosened in its own shell and scented with maraschino. No churning, no syrup, just cold fruit served from the rind.
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Pudding Miramar
Chartreuse-soaked biscuits and kirsch-bright fruit stripe a pomegranate bombe, frozen in a narrow mould and served with cold vanilla syrup. Its jewel-cut beauty depends on one plain discipline: drain the fruit hard.
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Parfait (Generic Recipe)
Parfait turns syrup-cooked yolks, whipped cream, and rum into a pale frozen mousse with a close, silken crumb. Cool the yolk base completely before folding, and the dessert keeps every bit of its lift.
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Preparation of Iced Mousse with Cream
A stone-cold crème anglaise, real cream, and patient whisking over ice become a pale, airy frozen mousse, proof that temperature, not force, is what lets this classical dessert hold its lift.
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Various Iced Mousses
Mousse glacée teaches the cold dessert canon in one bowl: cook a smooth crème anglaise, fold it with softly whipped cream, choose your perfume, and freeze it without churning.
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Punch à la Romaine
Champagne and citrus freeze to a bright, pale ice, then airy meringue and measured rum turn it spoonable, frothy, and ready for chilled glasses at a celebration table.
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Pudding de Castries
A frozen bombe built by patience: vanilla ice around alternating vanilla and tangerine creams, anisette-touched biscuits, chocolate, and red pralin, with bright tangerine syrup waiting at the table.
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Iced Puddings
Pouding glacé is a frozen entremet, not ice cream: vanilla crème anglaise collée, folded with whipped cream and set in a mold. Master its custard and a whole family of no-churn desserts follows.
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Preparation for Iced Fruit Mousses
Mousses glacées aux fruits teach the no-churn grammar of frozen dessert: one part cold syrup, one part pure fruit, two parts very stiff Chantilly, folded lightly and frozen before the air can fall.
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Granités
Granités teach the discipline of leaving well enough alone: a thin fruit syrup freezes untouched into bright, loose crystals, then breaks under the fork with no cream, no meringue, and no fuss.
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