Friday, April 27, 2012

Frieda's Lemon Quark Torte

BEST MADE A DAY (OR EVEN TWO) AHEAD

Ingredients for the crust:
  • 200 grams flour (Frank replaces 50 gr flour with 50 gram ground hazelnuts or almonds, and sometimes tosses in a handful of finely grated coconut)
  • 150 grams butter, cut into pieces
  • 50 grams brown sugar
  • pinch of salt
Ingredients for the filling:
  • 200 grams sugar
  • 3 egg yolks + 2 egg whites
  • 500 gram quark (in France, faisselle of 6% MG works very well; if you live in a country where supermarkets don't carry quark and want to make your own? Follow this link)
  • 13 grams gelatin (= 7 sheets of a standard 9-sheet/17 gram package)
  • 6 tablespoons of water
  • ¼ liter heavy whipping cream (do not use light cream)
  • juice of 3 large lemons
If you want to make a Raspberry version of this recipe, change the filling as follows:
  • add coulis of 500 gr raspberries (takes 2 seconds with a food processor)
  • reduce lemon juice to 1 lemon
  • increase gelatin to 22 gr (10 sheets of a standard 9-sheet/17 gram package)
Makes enough dough & filling for 1 spring-form pan of ±24 cm diameter, or 1 of 18 cm plus
2 of 10 cm Ø

Instructions for the crust:
  • mix the flour, sugar, salt, and the butter
  • knead into a dough (or put in kitchen machine at high speed until smooth or one big lump)
  • let rest for 15 - 30 minutes
  • cover bottom of spring pan evenly with the dough (do NOT make the bottom too thick; ±5 mm      (¼ inch) is plenty)
  • prick dough with fork
  • preheat oven to 175 °C (350 °F)
  • bake crust for 40 minutes in center of oven; note: in a mechanical convection oven (i.e., with
  • fan), use lower temperature setting (e.g., 150 °C)leave crust in the pan
Instructions for the filling:
  • mix sugar, egg yolks, one egg white, quark, and lemon juice
  • soak the gelatin sheets in cold water for about 10 minutes
  • bring the water to a boil
  • take water of the heat, squeeze the cold water out of gelatin, and dissolve the gelatin in the hot water while stirring
  • let the gelatin cool for a while, until no longer hot
  • blend the gelatin in with the quark mix , and beat at high speed for at least 5 minutes
  • whip the cream and whip the egg white
  • fold both fold carefully but thoroughly under the quark mix
  • put the filling on top of the crust in the spring pan
  • put in fridge
keep refrigerated!

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