Boil red wine with the sugar, honey, and cinnamon stick.
Add the elderberries and boil down slowly for about 15 minutes.
After 10 minutes, mix in the applesauce or cubed apples.
Mix cornstarch with some cold water at your discretion and thicken the purée with it.
Finally, season with ginger.
Use: as an addition to quark desserts or kaiserschmarren
Notes / Tips / Wine Advice:
Use elderberry season to prepare a larger amount of elderberry purée. It can be frozen without a problem and used in the winter for a fruity change of pace. Beware of snacking on elderberries as you pick them in late summer. Raw, they contain a toxic substance that causes nausea and headache, but it is safe after being heated over 212 °F (100 °C)Wild Hunt for Love The wood of the European Black Elderberry (Sambucus nigra) is entwined in many legends. In pagan times, the elder or “Holder” was the seat of the Goddess Freia, also called Holder, Holla, or Holle. She was honored and feared as the goddess of love as well at the leader of the ghostly Wild Hunt. The berry-like elder fruits, which are rich in vitamins and minerals, are very useful in sweet cooking as well as in the farmer’s pantry. The Austrian variety known as Haschberg are particularly aromatic.
1⅔cups400 ml Sauvignon blanc (or another strong white wine)
⅔cup150 ml Water
Juice of 1 lemon
7tbsp100 g Granulated sugar
2tbspplus 1 tsp50 g Honey
3tbsp4 cl Peach liqueur
Dash of salt
1⅔cups200 g Raspberry marmalade
9oz250 g Raspberries
7oz200 g Dark couverture chocolate
For the Cake Base
2Eggs
¼cup50 g Granulated sugar
3tbsp25 g Flour
3tbsp25 g Cornstarch
Dash of salt
Confectioner’s sugar
For the Vanilla Cream
3Egg yolks
7tbsp100 g Granulated sugar
½cup125 ml Milk
1Vanilla bean
2Sheets gelatin
¾cup175 ml Whipped cream
Instructies
Preheat oven to 350 °F (180 °C).
Blanch the peaches briefly in salt water, shock in ice water, and peel.
Halve and pit.
Bring the sauvignon blanc to boil with water, lemon juice, granulated sugar, and honey.
Add the peaches and cook until soft.
Take the peaches out and set aside.
Season the liquid with peach liqueur and boil slowly, until it is thick and syrupy.
Beat the eggs with granulated sugar and salt until thick and creamy.
Sieve the flour and cornstarch and fold into the egg.
Spread on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and bake for 6 minutes.
Overturn onto a cloth sprinkled with confectioner’s sugar and carefully pull away the parchment paper.
Cut out circles (about 3 in (7.
5 cm) diameter) with a cookie cutter and place in pans of the same size.
Brush with warm raspberry marmalade and place the raspberries on top.
Halve the vanilla bean and boil it in milk.
Remove from heat and let sit.
Beat the egg yolks with granulated sugar in a double boiler until creamy.
Remove the vanilla bean and scrape the pulp into the milk.
Dissolve the moistened gelatin in the warm milk and then pour into the egg yolk mixture.
Continue beating in double boiler until the mixture begins to thicken.
You can tell when it is ready because when you blow on the cream while it is coating the cooking spoon, rings will appear that are reminiscent of a rose.
Beat in an ice bath until cool.
Fold in the whipped cream.
Fill the forms and freeze for 2 hours.
Remove from the forms.
Cut ten 1½x8 in (4×20 cm) strips of parchment paper.
Melt the chocolate in a bain-marie.
Brush the paper strips thinly with the chocolate and wrap each tartlet with a strip, chocolate side in.
Let harden in the refrigerator and pull off the paper.
Cut the peaches into fine slices, but keep them all together in the original shape.
Set a peach half on top of each and pour the cooled syrup on top.