Turkish Delight Syllabub
- 3/4 cup orange-flavored liqueur (recommended: Cointreau)
- 2 lemons, juiced
- 8 tablespoons sugar
- Just under 2 1/2 cups heavy cream
- 2 tablespoons rose water
- 2 tablespoons orange-flower water
- 2 tablespoons finely chopped shelled pistachios
- Combine the orange-flavored liqueur, lemon juice and sugar in a large bowl (I use the bowl of my freestanding mixer) and stir to dissolve the sugar, or as good as.
- Slowly stir in the cream then get whisking.
- As I said, I use my freestanding mixer to this, but if you haven't got one, don't worry - but I would then advise a handheld electric mixer.
- This takes ages to thicken and doing it by hand will drive you demented with tedium and impatience.
- Or it would me.
- When the cream's fairly thick, but still not thick enough to hold its shape, dribble with the flower waters and then keep whisking until you have a cream mixture that's light and airy but able to form soft peaks.
- I always think of syllabub as occupying some notional territory between solid and liquid; you're aiming, as you whisk, for what Jane Grigson called "bulky whiteness."
- Whatever: better slightly too runny than slightly too thick, so proceed carefully, but don't get anxious about it.
- Spoon the syllabub in airy dollops into small glasses, letting the mixture billow up above the rim of the glass, and scatter finely chopped pistachios on top.
- In my How to Eat cookbook, there's a recipe for pistachio crescents that would be fabulous dunked into and eaten with this.
- But only if you feel like it: the cool, fool-like smoothness of this is perfect as it is.
orangeflavored liqueur, lemons, sugar, under, water, orangeflower water, pistachios
Taken from www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/nigella-lawson/turkish-delight-syllabub-recipe.html (may not work)