New Jersey · Dessert
Jersey Shore Zeppole
- Intermediate
- 60 min
- roughly 2 of 4 for cost
- Vegetarian
Leads with richness that coats and comforts.
Ingredients
- 250ml water
- 115g butter
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 150g flour
- 4 eggs
- Neutral oil for frying
- Icing sugar for dusting
Equipment
Deep-fry pot
The skills inside
The wobble & the skewer: testing a bake
Allergen screen
Found: gluten · dairy · egg
Screened for: gluten, dairy, egg, nuts, peanuts, fish, shellfish, molluscs, soy, sesame, celery, mustard, lupin, alcohol. Not screened: sulphites.
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Method
- Bring the water, butter, sugar, and salt to a boil.
- Add the flour all at once and beat over the heat until the dough pulls from the sides and films the pan, 2 min. 2 min
- Off the heat beat in the eggs one at a time until the dough is glossy and drops thickly from the spoon.
- Drop rough spoonfuls into 175C oil and fry 4-5 min, turning, until deep gold and hollow-sounding. 5 min
- Drain and bury in icing sugar while hot.
How to tell it is going right
This dish has no standard of its own yet. It is judged on the technique it exercises: checked at the pan, while there is still something to be done about it.
The wobble & the skewer: testing a bake 135 recipes
- Tested at the true centre and the thickest point, not at the convenient edge: the edge is done long before the answer is.
- The skewer comes out as the recipe describes, clean and dry or carrying the stated moist crumb, and it does the same on a second test in a different spot.
- The wobble is read in motion: nudged, the centre moves as one set mass with a faint tremble, rather than a liquid ripple travelling across the surface.
- The other signs agree with the test: risen and just shrinking from the sides, the top set and dry to a light touch with no wet gloss on it.
- Pressed lightly at the middle it springs back and leaves no lasting dent.
Where it goes wrong It was judged on the clock and on how the edges looked, so a centre still liquid went to the rack and sank as it cooled, a dense wet seam under a perfectly browned top.
At the Table
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The sweetness rule is absolute: the pour must be sweeter than the plate, and acid keeps it from cloying.
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