Tomato And Peach Gelee Recipes

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• Bring a small saucepan of water to a boil. Add the basil to the boiling water and cook until just wilted and bright green, about 15 seconds. Transfer with a slotted spoon to a blender and puree until smooth. With the machine running, add the olive oil and 1/4 teaspoon each salt and pepper.
• Spread the basil puree on a serving platter. Arrange the peaches and tomatoes on top and sprinkle with the lemon juice, 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/8 teaspoon pepper. Garnish with whole basil leaves and serve.

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• Toss tomato and peach wedges with red onion slices. Drizzle with cider vinegar and olive oil; season with sugar, salt and pepper.
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• Purée one fourth of tomatoes with ginger in a food processor until smooth, about 2 minutes. Transfer to a small heavy saucepan and simmer, covered, stirring occasionally, 5 minutes.
• Clean processor thoroughly, then purée remaining tomatoes in batches with chiles, salt, and sugar until smooth, 2 to 3 minutes. Transfer to a bowl and stir in cooked tomato ginger purée.
• Line a large sieve with stacked cheesecloth squares and set over a deep nonreactive pot or a large clean bucket. Carefully pour purée into center of cheesecloth. Gather sides of cheesecloth up over purée to form a large sack and tie sides together securely with string as close to purée as possible but without squeezing purée. Tie sack to a wooden spoon longer than diameter of pot and remove sieve. Set spoon across top of pot, suspending sack inside pot and leaving a couple of inches underneath sack so that it will not sit in any tomato water that accumulates. (Alternatively, transfer tomato water to another container as it accumulates.) Let sack hang 4 hours at room temperature.
• Bring 1 cup water to a boil in a 7- to 8-quart heavy pot. Add clams and cook, covered, over moderately high heat, until clams are opened wide, stirring and checking frequently after 6 minutes and transferring clams as opened to a bowl. (Discard any clams that have not opened after 10 minutes.) When cool enough to handle, shuck clams.
• Discard cheesecloth sack and its contents without squeezing. Pour tomato water through large sieve lined with a dampened paper towel into a bowl. Measure out 4 cups tomato water and reserve remainder for another use.
• Transfer 1/2 cup tomato water to a small saucepan, then sprinkle with gelatin and let soften 1 minute. Heat over low heat, stirring, just until gelatin is dissolved, then stir into remaining 31/2 cups tomato water.
• Arrange glasses on trays and put 1 or 2 cilantro leaves in each, then a clam, and then 1 or 2 more cilantro leaves. Add about 1 tablespoon tomato water to each glass (stir water each time so gelatin remains well distributed) and chill, loosely covered with plastic wrap, at least 3 hours. (Gelatin will be thickened but not set; it needs to slide easily out of glass.)

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• Combine 2 cups water and sugar in a small saucepan and sprinkle with gelatin. Let gelatin stand 1 minute to soften.
• Cook over moderate heat, gently stirring occasionally, just until sugar and gelatin are dissolved. Remove from heat and stir in wine, schnapps, and remaining cup water. Pour into a 10-cup mold and chill, covered, until firm, at least 10 hours.
• Dip mold in hot water a few seconds, then invert a plate over gelée and flip gelée onto plate.

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• Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Using a paring knife, score the nonstem end of each tomato and all but two of the yellow peaches (set aside the white peaches). Blanch the tomatoes and peaches in batches in the boiling water for 30 seconds. Transfer the tomatoes and peaches to a bowl of ice water; when cool enough to handle, peel them. Cut peaches in half; remove pits. Cut the peaches and tomatoes into smaller chunks; process pieces through food mill, collecting pulp and juices in a large bowl. Discard solids.
• Season the mixture with salt, pepper, and vinegar. Pick leaves from 3/4 of the bunch of tarragon; add to mixture. Line a large sieve with cheesecloth; set over a large bowl. Transfer entire mixture to sieve; let stand at room temperature for about 2 1/2 hours, until 4 1/2 cups of liquid, or half of the puree amount, has collected in the bowl.
• Transfer bowl to refrigerator, and let stand until very cold. Adjust seasoning of liquid with additional salt and pepper if necessary.
• Slice the cherry tomatoes in quarters or halves and the large heirloom tomatoes into 1/4-inch-thick slices. Arrange the tomatoes in serving bowls. Blanch the two remaining yellow peaches and the reserved white peaches as above, then peel and cut into 1/4-inch-thick wedges. Arrange the peach wedges in serving bowls.
• Ladle the chilled liquid over tomatoes and peaches. Garnish with remaining tarragon, and serve immediately.