Marquis Sundae — Kissel with Ice Cream
A simple dessert and drink for hot days. I still remember the sheer delight when, worn out by the merciless sun, my fellow travelers and I were handed simple little glass bowls of something wonderfully delicate by our hostess. It turned out to be just kissel (a thickened fruit drink) with ice cream — but the effect was extraordinary. The delicate, slightly tart flavor of cool fruit kissel with a scoop of vanilla ice cream was an unforgettable treat. As it happens, even dream guides have something to say about kissel: "...if you cooked kissel in a dream, it foretells great prosperity. If it came out too thick, you'll be well provided for a very long time, perhaps for the rest of your life. If it turned out too thin, you'll burn through your income quickly — not from extravagance, but because of life's setbacks or bad investments. To see someone else cooking kissel means a promotion. To be poisoned or scalded by it warns that the sweet life won't do you any good..." Well, after that, how could I not run off and cook up a thick kissel to invite some prosperity in? And to make the prosperity really stick, I decided to make a lovely, satisfying dessert — the "Marquis," ice cream in kissel. First, let's make a basic kissel. I'd recommend fresh berries or fruit for it — in my family we love black or red currants, blackberries, and raspberries. But all I had on hand was a single apple, so I used cranberry syrup instead.
- Here we go: 1. Pour the syrup into 400 g of water and bring to a boil. Add sugar or citric acid if you like — the base of a kissel, as you've gathered, always comes down to your family's tastes. 2. Mix the starch with 250 g of cold water. 3. Pour the starch-and-water mixture into the boiling syrup water in a slow stream, stirring constantly, and bring everything back to a boil — stirring nonstop. 4. Take it off the heat and cool it well. 5. Before serving, pour into dessert glasses, add about 50 g of ice cream to each, and garnish with mint leaves and a few fresh berries if you like. The beauty of this dessert is that the finished kissel keeps in the fridge for several days, so it's always there for unexpected guests or whenever you want an easy, pretty way to round off a meal. I hope you get a lot of pleasure out of this simple dessert.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Ice cream sundae - 227 kcal/100g
- Cream ice cream - 165 kcal/100g
- Ice cream 'popsicle' cream - 183 kcal/100g
- Vanilla ice cream - 160 kcal/100g
- Vanilla chocolate ice cream - 140 kcal/100g
- Fruit ice cream - 168 kcal/100g
- Milk ice cream - 126 kcal/100g
- Souffle ice cream - 116 kcal/100g
- Granulated sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Citric acid - 0 kcal/100g
- Water - 0 kcal/100g
- Syrup - 300 kcal/100g
- Potato starch - 300 kcal/100g
