Nov 17 2008
Awkward Affair
A pudding that felt like an effort to eat and a mis-use of the ingredients.
- Peaches in Muscat
This recipe is exactly as the name suggests; peaches served in a glass of muscat wine. You let the two meld together beforehand, for flavours, but otherwise it is basically just fruit in wine.
Which is kinda weird. The wine was a bit overpowering (there was probably too much per person, we kinda ignored the proportions as we’d a half bottle of Beames de Venise left over from the Blackberries in Muscat Jelly) and the fruit didn’t seem to have been greatly improved by the wine. Neither of us were especially sure what to make of the serving suggestion either- we added some cream to the mix but it didn’t really work. Dougal gave up after the fruit and while I manfully finished mine it was a bit of an effort.
The other serving suggestion- ice cream- got us thinking. We agreed that if you used a good bit less wine, did the steeping bit, but then served it over a scoop of ice cream, it might be pretty good. Failing that, some peaches and cream, with a toty glass of dessert wine on the side!
Boozy fruit and ice cream is usually good so if you feel you have to do it again, that would be a sensible tack to take.
How DO you spell toty? It looks wrong, but I cannot come up with a suitable alternative. Presumably that’s how you ended up there too?
SOMEONE out there must have the definitive spelling. Perhaps?
I didn’t google for it (how would you?) but as you say got there by a process of elimination. Perhaps I am in fact the first to record it in print and one day they’ll feature my blog on Balderdash & Piffle. In that case, I ought to clarify for the dons at Oxford: it means gie wee!