Nebraska · Dessert
Nebraska Kool-Aid Pie
- Easy
- 30 min
- roughly 1 of 4 for cost
- Vegetarian
Leads with acid holding everything up to the light.
Ingredients
- 1 graham cracker crust
- 1 packet unsweetened Kool-Aid (lemonade or cherry)
- 400g sweetened condensed milk
- 250ml whipped topping
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
The skills inside
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Method
- Whisk the Kool-Aid powder into the sweetened condensed milk until the color is even.
- Add the lemon juice and stir: the acid thickens the filling.
- Fold in the whipped topping until smooth.
- Spread into the graham crust.
- Chill at least 3 hours until set. Top with more whipped topping. 180 min
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.
Folding: keeping the air in 34 recipes
- The air was actually built first and it shows: whatever was creamed or whipped has changed colour and grown in volume, pale and light rather than dense.
- The two mixtures were brought closer before being combined: a little of the light one worked into the heavy one first, so the rest is not beaten flat trying to move it.
- Folded and not stirred: a broad implement down through the middle, across the base, up and over, with the bowl turned between strokes.
- Stopped the moment the streaks disappear. It is still visibly aerated and holds its shape briefly when the spoon lifts away.
- Into the tin and into the oven straight away: a batter left standing on the bench gives back the air it was built for.
Where it goes wrong It was stirred until it looked perfectly smooth. Every stroke past the point where the streaks vanish knocks out air that cannot be put back, so the bake comes out dense and short of the tin, and often wet through the middle where there was no structure to hold it.
At the Table
- The Pour
- Moscato d’Asti
- Also Right
- Late-harvest Riesling
- From the Taps
- Witbier
- Zero-Proof
- Sparkling elderflower
Citrus desserts need a wine sweeter than they are, with acid enough to keep up: light, frothy, and low-proof wins.
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