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However, I just love this macaron – maybe not as much as the entremet though; I think the acidic touch brought by the raspberry gellant makes for a perfectly balanced macaron.
foodbeam » Sunday c’est Hermé – Second week: la folie des macarons 2007
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Macaron with rose and litchi ganache and squares of raspberry gellant
foodbeam » Sunday c’est Hermé – Second week: la folie des macarons 2007
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Macaron with rose and litchi ganache and squares of raspberry gellant
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However, I just love this macaron – maybe not as much as the entremet though; I think the acidic touch brought by the raspberry gellant makes for a perfectly balanced macaron.
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But then came the Ispahan macarons – read: not only you have to close the macaron but you have to place small sticky squares of homemade raspberry gellant it’s a kind of fruit jelly that relies on agar agar instead of gelatine or pectin as a solidifying agent on every single coque before you can actually start to close them.
foodbeam » Sunday c’est Hermé – Second week: la folie des macarons 2007
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The addition of little hidden things in the hearts of macarons is Pierre Hermé’s signature: olive oil and vanilla (with two pieces of green olive), Ispahan (raspberry gellant), Mosaic (two griotte halves – hint: this is my personal favourite) and white truffle and hazelnuts (three crushed hazelnuts) just to cite a few.
foodbeam » Sunday c’est Hermé – Second week: la folie des macarons 2007
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But then came the Ispahan macarons – read: not only you have to close the macaron but you have to place small sticky squares of homemade raspberry gellant it’s a kind of fruit jelly that relies on agar agar instead of gelatine or pectin as a solidifying agent on every single coque before you can actually start to close them.
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The addition of little hidden things in the hearts of macarons is Pierre Hermé’s signature: olive oil and vanilla (with two pieces of green olive), Ispahan (raspberry gellant), Mosaic (two griotte halves – hint: this is my personal favourite) and white truffle and hazelnuts (three crushed hazelnuts) just to cite a few.
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