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Strawberries Romanoff
I love this dessert. Of course anything involving berries and cream is fine with me.
1 pound strawberries
Hull and slice the strawberries and toss with 1 Tablespoon of sugar
Sauce:
Combine and beat until cream is whipped and stiff
4 Tablespoons brown sugar
2 Tablespoons vanilla ( or rum or brandy or orange liquor )
1 cup whipping cream
1 Tablespoon orange zest
Add 1/2 cup of sour cream and mix well
1/2 pound of strawberry or vanilla ice cream.
Divide ice cream among 6 serving dishes
Top with strawberries
Top with sauce
The traditional recipe for Strawberries Romanoff calls for the berries to be sliced and soaked in orange liquor, then put over ice cream, and topped with cream sauce. It was probably invented by the French pastry chef Marie Antoine Careme for Russian Tsar Nicholas I.
Almond Cake
1 cup butter
1 1/2 cup sugar
2 egg
4 yolks, 4 egg whites
2 cup almonds, nuts
1 cup flour
4 Tablespoons orange juice
2 Tablespoon orange zest
Beat egg whites till stiff, set aside
Mix remaining ingredients and mix till blended
gently fold egg whites into mix
Bake at 375 ~30 minutes or until knife inserted into middle comes out clean
do not over bake or it will be dry
I frost this with a ganache ( melt 4 oz chocolate with 4 oz heavy cream then pour over cake )
Almonds are the US’s largest horticultural export. Ancient Romans showered newly weds with almonds to signal fertility.
