Dominican · Drink
Morir Soñando
- Easy
- 10 min
- roughly 1 of 4 for cost
- Vegetarian
Leads with a silken, spoon-slow texture.
Ingredients
- 400 ml whole milk, chilled to 2C (36F)
- 100 ml evaporated milk, chilled
- 60 g sugar
- 400 ml orange juice, freshly squeezed, strained and chilled hard
- ice cubes
The skills inside
Straining & passing through a sieve
Allergen screen
Found: dairy
Screened for: gluten, dairy, egg, nuts, peanuts, fish, shellfish, molluscs, soy, sesame, celery, mustard, lupin, alcohol. Not screened: sulphites.
Screened by keyword from the ingredient list, not reviewed by a person; check every label for what the list cannot show.
Method
- Stir the sugar into the two milks until it has completely dissolved, then hold the jug, the juice and the glasses in the coldest part of the fridge until everything is properly cold to the hand.
- Fill the glasses with ice.
- Pour the orange juice into the milk in a slow thread, stirring steadily all the while; never tip the milk into the juice.
- Pour over the ice and drink at once, while the colour is still even and opaque.
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.
Straining & passing through a sieve 148 recipes
- Nothing solid got through: a finger drawn through what came out finds no fibre, seed, skin, curd, or grit.
- Where the dish wants body it was worked through rather than left to drip, and the solids left in the mesh are spent and dry rather than still holding liquid worth having.
- It is judged on the tongue rather than by eye: smooth, with no residual grain left behind after the mouthful has gone.
- The mesh was fine enough for the job and held its shape, and nothing bypassed it by going over the rim.
- The yield is close to what went in less the spent solids: not half of it abandoned in the sieve because it stopped running and nobody pushed.
Where it goes wrong It was pushed through a mesh too coarse for it, or the sieve was overloaded and slopped at the rim, so the fibres it was meant to remove are in the finished sauce and it reads grainy on the tongue.
At the Table
- The Pour
- It is the pour
- Also Right
- Serve alongside something salty and fried
- From the Taps
- -
- Zero-Proof
- Already zero-proof unless you made it otherwise
This is the glass, not the plate: judge it on temperature, dilution, and balance, and let the food do the answering.
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