Friday, February 15, 2013

Clos Montmarte

There's a vineyard that still exists in the middle of Paris, in Montmarte, the last survivor of the many, mostly abbey-owned, that were in the city when it had walls, few bridges and a great iron cauldron near the river in which counterfeiters were boiled in oil.
The vineyard is at the corner of rue des Saules and rue Saint-Vincent, a few streets from Sacre'-Coeur.  It is small, producing only five hundred bottles a year that are sold in the mairie of the 18th arronissement and also at auction.  It's called Clos Montmartre, not expensive and not great, but from the heart of the heart of France.
This is from "Life Is Meals" by James and Kay Salter.

Remember the Swiss Miss Chocolate Roll, the one with the whipped cream inside.  This is a version of a bigger Swiss Miss Chocolate Roll.  I found this recipe in the "Tektronix Employees Kookbook", which is available on my Amazon storefront www.amazon.com/stores/oneofakindcookbooks as a collectible for $19.99.  Tektronix is a company based in Beaverton, OR, that produces Oscilloscopes.  The employees put this together in 1965.

Chocolate Roll
1/2 cup sugar
6 egg yolks
1/8 tsp. salt
chocolate sauce
2 rounded tbsp cocoa
5 egg whites
1/2 pint whipping cream, whipped and sweetened

Beat the yolks and stir into cocoa, with half the sugar.  Fold in well beaten whites and remainder of sugar.  Bake in a well-greased cookie sheet in slow oven (300-325 F).  When cool, remove from pan and spread with whipped cream.  Roll up like a jelly roll.  Slice and top each serving with chocolate sauce.

Happy Cooking!

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