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Fondants, Icings and Brightness

Apricot Damascus or Albaricoque Icing Recipe

Finished Brightness in  fruit tarts and cakes 

The purpose of brightness fruit is to maintain moisture and freshness of fruit.These glazes are transparent or can work with color to highlight the fruit In case you want to bright with intense coffee is to use the instant coffee dissolved in a little water. There are glazes manufactured and are sold in pastry shops.

This recipe can be used to give gloss and varnish in petits fours, like layer to hide defects mainly in the biscuit top surface and edges, such as waterproof to stop the passage of moisture from the fillings biscuits and to give a flavor slightly acid.

Taken from Pastry Memories by Paty la Chef

Ingredients:

Yield:

1 kg or 2 1/5 pounds

English Measures

Mise en Place

in Neto

Ingredients

in Net

Ingredients

Amount

Units

Amount

Unit

%

Sugar

10 1/7

ounces

290

gr.

29%

Water

6 2/3

ounces

190

gr.

19%

Lemon Juice

1 2/5

ounces

40

gr.

4%

Apricot Jam

1

pounds

480

gr.

48%

Total

 

 

1000

gr.

100%

Method of Preparation:

  • Weigh the ingredients very well.

  • Place in a conical saucepan, sugar, water and lemon juice.

  • Blend well jam Apricots 

  • Pour the water mixture, lemon juice and sugar on the blended jam 

  • Pass through a sieve so that the glaze is transparent.

  • Bring to the boil all ingredients together.

  • Store in sealed container

 

Equipment and utensils to prepare the recipe

Inox Conical Saucepan

Stove

Inox bowls

Inox whisk balloon

Kitchen ladle

Angular espatule

Blender high resistance

Sieve or Fine strainer

 

Please choose an excellent not caramelized apricot jam

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