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Hidromiel Y Fractal Fluido - Mead And Fractal Fluid

Hidromiel Y Fractal Fluido - Mead And Fractal Fluid

Lemon dessert with honey mead, a masterpiece of molecular gastronomy by the famous Spanish chefs Arzak

02 April, 2012
Average: 1.8 (19 votes)

Cuisine

Dietary Consideration

serves for

4

total time

2 HR 0 MIN

ingredients

All purpose flour
250 g
Butter
125 g, melted
Eggs
1
Egg yolks
1
Water
5 ml
Sugar
100 g
Tandoori spices
1,5 g
Sweet chili peppers
1,5 g
Carminic acid
0,5 g
Blue curaçao
20 g
Apple syrup
10 g
Lemon juice
150 g
Lemon zest
2
Eggs
2
Egg yolks
2 each
Butter
100 g
Grape sugar
50 g
Milk
50 g
Cocoa butter
200 g
Sweet chili peppers
3 g
Carminic acid
0,5 g
Water
500 ml
Honey
100 g
Star anise
2 pieces
Birch sugar
100 g
Xanthan gum
1,5 g
Vodka
10 g
Carminic acid
1,7 g
Water
5 g
Sugar
2 g
Bitter cocoa powder
To taste

Preparation

Step 01

For Broken Base

  • Mix all the ingredients and let it sit in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
  • Spread the paste on a baking sheet and bake for 80 minutes at 140 Cº.
  • Let it cool and then crush it completely.
  • Add the curaçao and the syrup to 150 gr of the crushed base.

Step 02

For Lemon “Sculptures”

  • Mix all the ingredients well.
  • Quickly scald it and then pour the mixture into a cubical Flexipan mould.
  • Place in freezer.
  • Once thickened, cut it in half, giving it an undulated shape.
  • Keep in freezer.

Step 03

For Exterior Of The Lemon “Sculptures”

  • Melt the butter at a temperature lower than 50°C.
  • Add the sweet chilli pepper and the carminic acid.
  • Sprinkle it with frozen lemon, with the help of a hypodermic needle so as to create a thin exterior.
  • Let it sit in the refrigerator.

Step 04

For Mead Base

  • Scald the honey and water mixture; add the star anice and let it infuse for 5 minutes.
  • Let cool.
  • Mix the remaining ingredients, beating well with a whisk.
  • Let it rest in the refrigerator for 6 hours to eliminated any excess air.

Step 05

For Mead Reactor

  • Mix together all the ingredients.

Step 06

To finish

  • Sprinkle the lemon-based “sculptures” with cocoa powder, which will give it a coppery look.
  • Place the broken base on a flat surface or serving plate.
  • Then add the lemon sculptures, in a vertical manner (2 per person).
  • To finish, pour 50 gr of mead.
  • The server will then add a full teaspoon of reactor that will then produce a kind of fractal reaction.
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