Lubricate 8 small heat-resistant molds with oil, line them with a film so that its edges hang down by 5 cm. Melt the chocolate broken into pieces in a water bath, cool slightly. In another bowl, whip the cold cream until fluffy.
Pour milk into saucepan, bring to a boil. In a heat-resistant bowl, beat the yolks with sugar into the foam and pour in the hot milk, stirring constantly. Return mixture to saucepan, place over low heat and heat, whisking, until thickened. Don't let it boil! Remove from heat, add cinnamon and rum.
Mix the egg mass with melted chocolate, cool. Gently fold in the whipped cream into the mixture. Cut each berry into slices. Put the strawberry slices into the prepared molds, spread the resulting pate on top, pressing lightly; cover with the edges of the film and refrigerate for at least 4 hours, preferably overnight.
For the sabayon, combine the sparkling wine, sugar and egg yolks in a heatproof bowl. Place the bowl in a water bath over very low heat (the bowl should not touch the boiling water) and heat, whisking constantly, until thickened, 5 to 7 minutes. Remove from the bath and cool, stirring occasionally to prevent a skin from forming. In another bowl, whip the cold cream until fluffy. Gently fold the sauce into the whipped cream. Place in refrigerator for at least 1 hour.
- On the eve of the New Year, many are concerned about the question: how to choose champagne for the festive table?
- It is preferable to choose a dark glass bottle. If you buy expensive, high-end champagnes that are sealed with a cork stopper, the bottle must be stored horizontally so that the wine flows around the cork. This will prevent the cork from drying out and leaking carbon dioxide.
What is the difference between different types of champagne?
– Champagne differs in sugar content. The driest is brut. It has a low sugar content. Next comes dry, semi-dry, semi-sweet and sweet. In the latter, the sugar content can be compared to five tablespoons of sugar per cup of tea.
What is the difference between champagne and carbonated sweet wine?
- The differences are fundamental. The carbon dioxide in champagne, which creates the foam, is naturally occurring and is formed during the life of the yeast. They are added almost to dry white wine, the so-called reservoir liquor is also added there, which is food for these yeasts. Yeast produces alcohol and carbon dioxide in the process of life. Since the tanks are sealed, this carbon dioxide does not go anywhere, it binds. A carbonated sweet wine is a regular wine that contains artificial carbon dioxide.
What is the difference for the consumer?
– Unlike champagne, carbonated wine will never have bubbles in the glass. Carbonated wine has a flatter taste. Champagne in the process of fermentation becomes a useful product, which contains 22 amino acids. And carbonated wines, except for carbon dioxide, do not carry anything in themselves.
How to drink champagne properly?
Champagne should be served chilled. The best temperature is from 7 to 9 degrees. In no case should you strive for a sharp shot when opening champagne. Otherwise, rarefaction of the space of the gas chamber occurs, carbon dioxide dissolved in wine is released, and when poured into glasses, the game fades very quickly. The glass is better to use in the form of a tulip. It allows the aroma to be concentrated near the neck, and the narrow bottom allows the bubbles to stand out longer. You should not drink in one gulp, and I highly recommend not drinking champagne with painted lips. The substances that make up the lipstick neutralize the subtlety of the bouquet.
What should you eat with champagne?
- Fruits, good cheese, light salads, biscuits, white meat dishes, game go very well with champagne. Chocolate is the worst enemy of champagne, which completely kills its taste.
– Do employees of your company often drink champagne?
- Champagne cannot be prepared without organoleptic analysis. As a technologist, I have to taste champagne throughout the day, from the semi-finished product to the finished product. Some moments in technology, when something goes wrong, can only be understood by trying. All this does not go to the detriment of production. Nobody comes here to get drunk. People in a state of intoxication raise questions at the checkpoint, but everyone who is employed in production does not drive cars to work.
In order not to spoil the taste of such a noble drink as champagne, you need a suitable snack. The problem is that sparkling wines do not go well with all dishes. We will consider what champagne is drunk with according to etiquette. It is important to remember a few rules here.
When compiling a festive menu, you need to know what dishes are not served with champagne:
- chocolate - a good combination of champagne and chocolate is nothing more than a myth, in fact, the taste and smell of chocolate interrupts the bouquet of sparkling wine, so experts do not recommend eating champagne with chocolates, they do this when they want to hide the low quality of the drink;
- onions and garlic - also not served with champagne, because they have a strong smell;
- red meat (ham, sausage, brisket);
- oriental sweets - halva, nougat and others, after which sparkling wines seem very sour.
As snacks for champagne you can serve:
- sandwiches with caviar;
- fruit;
- salads without mayonnaise;
- cheeses (ideal with pink champagne);
- boiled poultry and white meat;
- fruit biscuits;
- nuts and almonds;
- seafood;
- desserts (marshmallows, cookies, cakes, pastries) - served with semi-sweet types of champagne.
Champagne and other drinks
Sparkling wines are not recommended to be mixed with other alcohol. But in practice, drinking one champagne all evening is not always possible. To stay moderately sober, it is important to follow the following rule: after champagne, you can drink stronger drinks (increase the degree), but not vice versa.
For example, having sipped a few glasses of champagne, they switch to vodka or cognac, but after vodka it is better not to touch sparkling wines. Subject to this rule, intoxication and a hangover in the morning are not so strong.
First champagne, then vodka, but not vice versa Champagne is also diluted with freshly squeezed juices, such as orange or peach.
Any holiday is instantly associated with glasses of champagne, because the drink is able to create a joyful atmosphere. To get the maximum pleasure from such a "bubbly" wine, you need to learn the rules for handling it: how to use it, options for snacks after drinking.
The best snacks
When sparkling liquid is poured into a glass, people often make the mistake of drinking it all in one gulp. You can't do that. Consider how to drink champagne correctly.
The glass must be kept below the poured liquid, without warming the drink with the palm of your hand, similar to cognac. This type of wine is certainly cooled before drinking, it has a temperature of 7-9 °, losing its true taste and sparkling with heating.
All housewives certainly have their own proven recipes for a festive feast; snacks occupy a special place in their list. Few people know what is required to eat champagne, so they use traditional dishes. But according to etiquette, everything is completely different.
Relies on champagne to be sure to serve only the following appetizers:
- certain vegetables;
- any fruit;
- nuts;
- seafood;
- olives;
- hard or noble cheese;
- light smoked meats;
- poultry meat.
It is these simple snacks that will contribute to the enjoyment of the taste, and then the aftertaste of champagne.
It should be understood that the listed products almost rarely end up on the table in their pure form. They are commonly used in delicious recipes. Most culinary sites publish collections of recipes that are most suitable for a quick bite of champagne, a lot of gourmet dishes for this purpose.
If there is no time to take care of cooking, chocolate is considered the best snack for a drink. In reality this is a very common mistake, since it is indecent to eat champagne with any kind of chocolate.
The right snacks for a noble drink are much more important for the festive table than many people think. What most people often forget is just how insidious the bubbles are that have made champagne popularly loved.
Usually a holiday begins with champagne, it is drunk first, after the turn comes to other drinks. Since carbon dioxide present in a glass can play a cruel joke on a person, because it enhances the absorption of alcohol, you need to worry about a snack. The option of dishes depends entirely on what kind it is, classified according to the sugar content in the liquid:
- sweet– more than 8%;
- semi-sweet– about 6%;
- semi-dry- around 5%;
- dry– about 3%;
- very dry– about 0.8%;
- brut– maximum 0.3%.
What snacks are suitable for brut
Gourmets call this drink true champagne. Similar to dry wines, it is in brut that there is practically no sugar in the composition, which has completely transformed into ethanol. Wine was invented by Lambert, who invented a fermentation technology that helps to obtain lactic acid from the original apple substance.
There are few admirers of brut, men like strong alcohol, while women prefer sweet drinks.
There is one advantage that makes brut special, exclusive in a series of other wines - it is almost impossible to fake a drink. The reason is this feature- extraneous additives are traditionally drowned out with sugar, but it is absent in brut.
This is a light, very gentle drink, it does not provoke a hangover, does not cause problems in the gastrointestinal tract. Although it cannot be considered because of this that you can refuse snacks. It must be low in calories. Veal, poultry meat, boiled shrimp, lean types of fish, sandwiches garnished with red caviar, ordinary pate or pistachios. It is with such snacks that they use brut.
Often snack on a drink mozzarella or goat cheese.
What is suitable for semi-sweet varieties of champagne
The lion's share of production is a semi-sweet drink. Almost 80% of the population prefer just such a wine, which is why it is necessary to understand what it is desirable to drink a semi-sweet type of champagne with. It is not customary to eat drier foods with fruits or desserts, but semi-sweet is an exception.
- game,
- asparagus or cauliflower
- poultry meat.
Still fit ice cream, fruit and biscuits, mild cheese. This is a decent appetizer for a semi-sweet wine.
What to eat with rosé champagne
Rose champagne is distinguished by exquisite taste. Therefore, it is best suited meat products as they complement the drink. An exclusive appetizer suitable only for expensive wines - lobster and venison, truffles or salmon. Not everyone is able to afford such products, but you need to know about such a successful combination if you are interested in what aristocrats eat such a liquid.
Suitable for this champagne:
- cheese canapes(wonderfully combined with a drink pink varieties of the product),
- caviar or seafood,
- still recommend salads without mayonnaise because it harms the stomach when combined with a semi-dry drink.
It is useful to have a snack nuts, olives, any crackers, as well as white meat, which should be boiled. Traditionally, a semi-dry drink is served with fried turkey. Italians prefer to eat pizza after sparkling wine.
If we talk about dessert, then a good solution - salad, the ingredients of which are pineapple, peaches and pears. Perfect solution - fruit pie.
Having opted for fruits, you should think about such a wonderful dish as they are melon balls after cooling.
What is suitable for sweet wine
An indispensable condition that needs to be fulfilled: such goodies must be without lemon, coffee, and other products that are too rich in taste.
Therefore, a sweet version of champagne should be snacked on by any dishes, although not too cloying in sweetness.
Simple snacks for quick cooking
Snacks for any champagne must be consumed at a time, especially when the drink is served for a buffet table. Looking for recipes for light meals, you want to prefer rolls, canapes, snacks strung on skewers.
We offer several affordable, most delicious snacks:
- A simple canape including crabmeat, feta and beets;
- Ordinary tartlets, the ingredient of which is Brussels sprouts;
- Simple chicken roll with prunes;
- Sandwich with cod liver;
- Lavash with capelin caviar in the form of rolls.
What foods and dishes are forbidden to eat with champagne
When considering a diet for a feast for a celebration, you need to remember about ban for the following snacks:
- Chocolate, since it is able to drown out the bouquet (when you really want to, you should serve white chocolate without cocoa);
- Boiled pork, sausages or brisket, other variants of red meat;
- Variants of garlic dishes, as they have a pungent smell that completely drowns out the exquisite bouquet;
- Oriental sweets, because after them the taste of champagne will become too sour.
Pairing drinks with sparkling wine
Having considered the options for snacks, we recall what it is recommended to drink champagne with. This usually results in controversy. Many gourmets are sure that a noble drink is generally forbidden to be mixed with others. But rarely do guests agree to drink only champagne all evening, which is why it is necessary to observe an inexorable rule: after champagne, it is allowed to drink just vodka or cognac.
Also, the answer on the topic of what should be drunk at the same time as champagne is fresh juices. Orange or peach fresh juices go well with wine, it can even be diluted with them.
According to tradition, before the clock strikes midnight, and the new year enters its legal rights, you need to fill the glasses and thank the outgoing year, say goodbye to it. Whatever it was, it brought a lot of good things to each of us.
Such a sign of “farewell” to the old year for me since childhood was a piece of chocolate, which my grandmother put into a glass of champagne, and he literally began to “circle” and “dance” in it. But why is it customary to uncork champagne on New Year's Eve and serve it with chocolate? Is this a tradition or just a myth? Let's figure it out...
Myth #1:
Chocolate served with champagne
In fact, according to winemakers, “jamming” champagne with chocolate is not right. Cocoa contained in chocolate mercilessly "kills" the unique bouquet of wine. Therefore, as an addition, olives, grapes or cheese are more suitable for the selected champagne variety. Although, "chocolate" fountains and fountains for champagne are now very common. These miniature devices are real fountains into which champagne or hot chocolate is poured instead of water. With their help, you can easily decorate the table and surprise guests by making sweet fun the main entertainment of the evening.
Chocolate is bad for children's teeth
This is indeed a myth. Chocolate does not harm the teeth, but on the contrary, it “protects” them. Unlike other sweets, chocolate contains antiseptic substances. Cocoa butter, which is part of chocolate, envelops the teeth with a protective film, preventing the development of tartar. But, remember, in everything you need to know the measure.
Champagne - sparkling wine, produced by secondary fermentation. The name of the drink comes from the name of the province of Champagne in France. The term "champagne" is also used by sparkling wine producers in many countries and localities (for example, in California, Canada and Russia), although it is correct to use it only in relation to wine produced in the Champagne region.
Champagne should be drunk cold
Experts say that champagne should be cooled to a temperature not lower than + 7-8 degrees C. Before opening, you need to gently turn the bottle several times, thereby mixing the temperature at the bottom and near the cork. The glass must be held by the leg so that it does not heat up from the heat of the hands. The champagne should fill the glass three-quarters. In the "right" drink, the bubbles will "play" for several hours. By the way, after uncorking, the bottle must be put down, not put down, so that the wine “washes” the cork and maintains the necessary tightness.
Champagne gives me a headache
As you understand, if you drink too much, your head can get sick and not only from champagne. Although, this wine really has such an effect. And this is why this happens: from a small amount of champagne, the vessels expand, and then narrow after a short period of time, because. wine acts on the body almost "instantly", and the effect of it does not last long. Due to this, a spasm occurs, causing a headache.
Chocolate(English) Chocolate, fr. Chocolate, Spanish Chocolate) is a term denoting various types of confectionery products made using cocoa fruits.
Champagne "Brut" - the best
The situation with the “sweetness” of sparkling wine is as follows: brut is a drink that does not contain sugar. It is low in calories, and is considered "the purest", the aroma and taste are most pronounced in it. Semi-sweet champagne is more suitable for a festive table; it is made by adding wine and sugar-based liquor to the drink.
When choosing champagne for the New Year's table, remember that the label should contain information about the manufacturer, the name of the plant (in Russia) or company (abroad) and the legal address; type of wine (brut, dry, semi-dry, etc.); regulatory documentation (GOST number according to which the wine is made); percentage of sugar.
Although, there is a “folk” method to check whether you bought real champagne: you need to throw a piece of chocolate into a glass of wine and if the chocolate “dances” - it is real. This is exactly what my grandmother did.
Champagne cocktails:
Cocktail "Santa Claus": 1 bottle of sparkling wine, 1 bottle of cognac, 3 bottles of dry red wine, 1/2 liter of strong tea, juice of 20 lemons, 500 g of powdered sugar.
Dissolve sugar in lemon juice. Add tea, ice cubes, wine and cognac. Cool down. Pour in the champagne before serving. Pour into glasses and garnish with lemon or orange slices.
Cocktail "Winter Dawn": 2 teaspoons raspberry or cherry liqueur, sparkling wine.
Pour liqueurs into a glass, twist so that the drink wraps around the walls of the glass. Pour 100 ml of champagne in a thin stream, do not stir.
Prepared by E. Baranova
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