Showing posts with label mora. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mora. Show all posts

Thursday, September 06, 2012

Material de Cuisine

 It's great fun to hang out in Paris's pastry supply area, 75001. The amusing kitchen gadgets/materials de cuisine are endless.

 Though you won't have to do thumbnails to get in.

 A.Simon is one of the top purveyors but you don't want to show up just as their closing their doors.

 Most bake supply shop are clustered around rue Montorgueil. Not the 'golden triangle' but maybe the 'panhandle triangle'.

 Mora is top drawer for pastry bakers but it was closed too.

 G.Detou was open.

 You want bleu macarons?
You want your macarons to smell of pineapple? You'll find aromas to scent your meringue shells.
Do you prefer to use liquid coloring or powdered? Some say the liquid changes your batter's consistency too much..

 Have you ever tasted macarons a l'ancienne? Old fashioned macarons are available at G.Detou.

 La Bovida is a higher-end supplier of kitchen equipment/materials de cuisine

 La Bovida has been doing it since 1921.

 E.Dehillerin is the classic & oldest Paris cuisine shop

 They have every size French whip under the sun - an essential to sucessful macaron making.

And pehaps every size duck too. Certainly the essential red checked towel if you want to look dashing in the kitchen.

Bear wants to look dashing when he becomes a Parisien cafe waiter. You can find that gear as well nearby on rue Saint Etienne.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Macaron Bake Supplies with Jill Colonna

BEAR was when Mad About Macarons arrived in the mail

Yesterday we met author Jill Colonna at her favorite baking supply shop, Mora - 13, rue Montmartre 75001

To get the scoop on all her fav pastry tools for making macarons!!

Jill's favorite bowl scraper (1€).

More expensive, but this metal scraper will remove your cooled macarons (after 10 minutes) with one wisk of the hand - voila!

Jill likes the Flexipan molds for baking.

Over the plastic kind.

Nozzle #9 is perfect for making macarons - I bought one too.

Jill uses Exopat parchment paper to line her baking pans, not Silpats.*And only bake ONE pan of macarons in the oven at a time!
*PLEASE TAKE NOTE future macaron makers
You need a proper pastry scale if you want to make proper pastry. All the pros everywhere use them. The measurements in grams in the book are universal. Every pastry chef worth his/her salt has a scale to get the exact quantities correct. C'est comme ca. Making pastry is chemistry and not a casual handful of this or that.
Another thing Jill pointed out - is get to know your oven.
An oven thermometer is the best way. Macarons can be fickle - much depends on your oven.

Another lecon. Jill does NOT use a Kitchen Aide to beat her egg whites.Simply a Moulinex hand-held electric whisk.
So we can all get down and start making macarons, myself and BEAR included!

A peek inside Jill's shopping basket.

Jill could not be more generous with her secrets. Do visit her new blog, Le Blog. And for heaven's sake get her book!

BEAR is thrilled at the prospect of actually making some macarons of his own.Plus Jill has promised a follow-up lecon next trip if we do our macaron homework.

We were both smitten with Jill's bag from Lupo by the way.

The outside of Mora - they couldn't have been more helpful & the prices are less than across the street at Bovida...hmmm

Jill insisted on taking me to Jean-Paul Hevin's new Chocolate Bar, but that's another story. Noted Jean-Paul Hevin's  chocolat macaronsShall we all get baking? I'm ready to plunge in.
BONJOUR MAD ABOUT MACARONS ; Jill!