Culinary

Perce Neige Dish

COOKING WITH TEA

Perce Neige

Inside an airy, cloud-like meringue, lies a sweet present for Clara waiting to be unwrapped.

Extracting the hazelnut and smokiness of the Nutcracker tea, Executive Chef Russell Hays of St. Regis Atlanta, creates a tea-infused pastry cream to delight, hidden away amid a wrapping of marshmallow-like clouds.

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Notes from Russell Hays, Executive Sous Chef at the St. Regis Atlanta:

“Meringues are very fragile, and you need to do every step perfectly, or else the meringue may separate and become unusable.”

Tea in Recipe

BLACK TEA

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Ingredients

Instructions

Ingredients

French Meringue

100 Grams Egg Whites
100 Grams Sugar

Chocolate Bubble Tuile

100 Grams Sugar
2 ½ Grams Pectin
50 ½ Grams Butter
50 ½ Grams Grand Caraque Chocolate
10 ½ Grams Cocoa Powder
40 ½ Grams Glucose or Light Corn Syrup
80 ½ Grams Water

Nutcracker Crème Anglais

1 L Whole Milk
15 ½ Grams TEALEAVES Nutcracker Tea
12 Egg Yolks
200 ½ Grams Sugar

Nutcracker Simple Syrup

200 ½ Grams Water
200 ½ Grams Sugar
25 ½ Grams TEALEAVES Nutcracker Tea

Mousseline Cream

1 L Whole Milk
1 Vanilla Bean
250 ½ Grams Sugar
100 ½ Grams Eggs
150 ½ Grams Egg Yolks
90 ½ Grams Cornstarch
250 ½ Grams Butter #1
250 ½ Grams Butter #2

Chestnut Filling

500 ½ Grams Chestnut Purée
100 ½ Grams Nutcracker Simple Syrup (see above)
200 ½ Grams Mousseline Cream (see above)

Perce Neige

1 French Meringue Ring (see above)
Chestnut Filling (see above)
1 Piece Chocolate Bubble Tuile (see above)
Nutcracker Crème Anglaise (see above)

Instructions

French Meringue

Begin whisking the egg whites with the whisk attachment on medium low.
Increase the speed to medium and start adding sugar.
Add the remaining sugar as the whites turn into soft peaks.
Increase the speed to medium-high until the egg whites turn into stiff peaks.
Pipe the meringue into metal ring molds that have been sprayed with nonstick spray.
Steam for 1 to 1.5 min, until the meringue rises slightly.
Remove the metal rings carefully.
Using a large parisian scoop, take out the center and one more scoop from the middle. Save the meringue to cover the same hole later.
Before filling, use the blowtorch to lightly toast the outside all over.
Using a pastry bag with a small hole, pipe in the chestnut mixture until it is flush with the top.
Smooth over the saved meringue.

Chocolate Bubble Tuile

Melt the butter, glucose, chocolate and cocoa powder.
Mix the sugar and pectin well, then add to the warm butter mix.
Add water, then bring the mixture to a boil. After 3-4 minutes it should be thick.
Chill well and portion small “gumballs” on a silpat, and cook at 350ºF until the large bubbles stop (about 6 min). When cool, they should be very crispy.

Nutcracker Crème Anglais

Heat the milk, half of the sugar and TEALEAVES Nutcracker Tea
Mix the egg yolks with the rest of the sugar.
Temper the mixture and put back on low heat stirring constantly until thick.
Strain the tea and put the mixture on ice right away.

Nutcracker Simple Syrup

Combine all the ingredients and bring to a boil.
Let the syrup infuse for 5 minutes, then strain.

Mousseline Cream

Heat the milk, vanilla bean and half the sugar.
Mix the cornstarch with the other half of the sugar.
Add the egg yolks and eggs.
Temper this and mix while stirring until thick.
Add butter number #1 and mix well.
When the mixture is cool, incorporate butter #2.

Chestnut Filling

In a mixer with a whisk, smooth out the puree first, then add the Nutcracker Simple Syrup slowly, and finally add the Mousseline Cream.
Scrape the bowl.
It is done when there are no lumps.

Notes

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