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Mousse de Homard Moulée
Created by Chef Juliette
A chilled Mousse de Homard Moulée, cloaked in transparent fish jelly and set with black truffle: the cold mould that teaches temperature, timing, and the quiet nerve of a clean turn-out.
Mousse de Homard Moulée (moulded lobster mousse) teaches temperature before decoration. The one true thing is this: the fish jelly must be fluid enough to travel and cool enough to set where you send it. Too warm and it slips from the mould; too cold and it hardens in ridges. Control that narrow moment and the rest is patient assembly.
The grand cold kitchen assumed a garde-manger beside an ice chest, fish jelly made from stock never off the fire, and a banquet mould large enough for a procession. Your honest equivalents are prepared clear fish jelly, a bowl of ice water, a household refrigerator, and one 3-cup mould serving four. The brigade-scale ornament has gone because it was scaffolding; chemiser le moule (clothing the mould) remains because that transparent jelly skin is the dish. One cook, one stove, one evening.
Turned out properly, the mousse is cool and silken beneath a glass-clear film, with black truffle rounds showing through like dark coins. Rock the mould steadily over ice until the jelly catches in one thin, even coat. That is the step that matters most.
Ingredients
prepared Mousse de Homard from the preceding recipe
Quantity
2½ cups (590 ml / 565 g)
chilled but spoonable
clear fish jelly, prepared and fully set
Quantity
1 cup (240 ml / 240 g), as used in Another Method of Preparing Aspics de Filets de Soles (No. 916)
very black truffle
Quantity
1 small (about 1 oz / 28 g)
wiped clean and cut into large thin rounds
| Ingredient | Quantity |
|---|---|
| prepared Mousse de Homard from the preceding recipechilled but spoonable | 2½ cups (590 ml / 565 g) |
| clear fish jelly, prepared and fully set | 1 cup (240 ml / 240 g), as used in Another Method of Preparing Aspics de Filets de Soles (No. 916) |
| very black trufflewiped clean and cut into large thin rounds | 1 small (about 1 oz / 28 g) |
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