Oranges filled with orange sorbet and cloudberry jam
- 12 egg yolks
- 1 13 cups sugar
- Pinch salt
- 2 whole vanilla beans
- 4 1/4 cups liquid, half cream and half milk
- Finely grated peel of two oranges
- 1/4 cup undiluted frozen orange juice concentrate
- Julienned peel of three oranges
- 10 oranges
- 10 large green leaves, any decorative kind 1 approximately
- 1 5-ounce jar cloudberry jam (see note)
- To make the sorbet, beat yolks thoroughly.
- Add sugar and salt, and combine well.
- Split vanilla beans, remove seeds and reserve for another use.
- Heat milk and cream together with vanilla-bean pods until mixture is hot but not boiling.
- Stir a little of the hot liquid into the yolk mixture, then return all to milk mixture and cook, stirring, until thick enough to coat back of spoon.
- Strain.
- Add finely grated peel of oranges and cool.
- Put the mixture in an ice-cream machine and process.
- When slushy, add orange juice.
- Blanch julienned pieces of orange peel in boiling water two to three minutes.
- Drain.
- Boil peel in additional water to cover until tender, about five minutes.
- Cool, drain and dry.
- Add to sorbet mixture.
- To assemble, cut off tops of 10 oranges, reserve slices.
- Cut off thin slice from bottom if necessary to make orange stand up.
- Scoop out insides using grapefruit knife.
- Reserve orange sections for other uses.
- Fill shells with sorbet mixture, making indentation in center.
- Place reserved top slice on an angle in the indentation.
- Put in freezer.
- To serve, place filled orange on a large green leaf on dessert plate.
- Spoon cloudberry jam on top of sorbet and serve.
egg yolks, sugar, salt, vanilla beans, liquid, oranges, orange juice, three oranges, oranges, green leaves, cloudberry
Taken from cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/10488 (may not work)