Where to taste it
In the past few weeks we have told you about butter sandwiches, which are used to prepare both savory and sweet authentic delights.
Today we want to talk to you about a dessert that accompanies the breakfasts of Messina, we are talking about the Viennese Messinese, a soft, fragrant and tremendously inviting dessert consisting of a soft rum-flavored sandwich filled with cream or chocolate.
Prepare i Viennese it's not complicated. Indeed, for those who want to make them quickly just buy the butter sandwiches in the bakery and stuff them with milk cream. But for those who want to prepare the truth Viennese Messinese here is the recipe.
Ingredients for the cream
- Milk: 200 g
- The peel of: 1 lemon
- Cream: 50 g
- Rum: 1 tsp
- Sugar: 90 g
- Vanillin: 1 sachet
- Yolks: 2
- Whipped cream: 150 g
- Corn starch: 40 g
- Vanillin in sheets: 4 g
- Butter: 25 g
- Put the 200 g of milk plus the 50 g of cream with the lemon zest and vanilla in a saucepan and put on the heat. In a small bowl put the egg yolks with the sugar and mix vigorously.
- Add the sifted starch and a little of the milk with the cream put to heat (just enough to make the mixture fluid). Soak the gelatin in water. When milk and cream come to a boil (remove the lemon peel), add the egg mixture and mix with a whisk.
- Once thickened, remove from heat and add the rum, gelatin and melt well. Pour the cream into a pan and spatulate until it cools, at this point add the butter and continue to spatulate until completely absorbed. Pour everything into a bowl and keep in the fridge. Once cool, add the whipped cream, mixing from the bottom up. Leave aside in the fridge.
Now let's take the Butter sandwiches making a slightly off-center cut and fill with the cream using a pastry bag.
Then you just have to delight your palate with the Viennese Messinese. If you find yourself in our city we suggest you try the Viennese Messinese of Freni pastry shop.
For the Viennese from Messina MadeinMessina.com recommends:
Freni pastry shop - SS 114 km 4,100 Contesse:
