Bubbly Lemon Gelee Recipes

Steps:

• Combine gelatin and 1/4 cup club soda in a small bowl; let stand. In a saucepan, heat lemon juice and sugar over medium, stirring until sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat; stir in gelatin mixture until dissolved.
• Transfer to a bowl; stir in remaining club soda. Refrigerate until set, about 5 hours. Serve with whipped cream and zest.

Steps:

• For the Lemon Gelee: Cut the zest off of the lemons. In hot broth, add the zest, and let soak for 30 minutes. Drain the zest out of the broth. Add the gelatin to the broth and soak for a few minutes to dissolve. Refrigerate for 30 minutes, or until jelled.
• Cut tuna into small dice with no sinew. Cut bread into small dice, same as the tuna, and soak tuna and bread in lemon juice. Peel eggs and crush with a fork. In a small bowl mix tuna, eggs, herbs, olive oil, salt and pepper. Keep refrigerated.
• Blanch, peel, halve, and remove seeds from the tomato. Slice tomatoes.
• Garnish plate with lemon gelee to one side of the plate. Lay one slice of tomato on the plate, and layer top with the tuna tartar. Add center slice of tomato, and add more tartar. Add remaining slice and tartar, and finish with a tomato slice. Sprinkle tomato with shallots, fennel, and dill seeds. Make a small pool of olive oil on the plate, and serve.

Steps:

• Rub verbena sprigs in your hands to bruise leaves and stems, then combine sprigs with wine and 3/4 cup sugar in a heavy medium saucepan. Bring to a boil, stirring until sugar has dissolved, then simmer 1 minute. Remove from heat and let steep, covered, 1 hour.
• While verbena mixture steeps, finely grind verbena leaves with remaining 1/4 cup sugar in a food processor or an electric coffee/spice grinder. Gently toss fruit with verbena sugar and 2 tablespoons lemon juice in a bowl. Let stand while verbena syrup finishes steeping.
• Sprinkle gelatin over water and let soften 1 minute. Meanwhile, reheat verbena syrup until hot, then stir in gelatin mixture until dissolved. Strain through a fine-mesh sieve into a bowl. Stir in macerated fruit with juices and remaining 2 tablespoons lemon juice. Chill in an ice bath, stirring occasionally, until cool and thickened (the texture of raw egg whites) but not set, 8 to 10 minutes.
• Very lightly oil baking pan with vegetable oil (not necessary if pan is nonstick or if using individual glasses).
• Pour gelée into baking pan and chill in refrigerator until set, at least 3 hours.
• To unmold, dip pan in a larger pan of hot water 5 to 10 seconds to loosen. Invert onto a serving plate (do not unmold if using individual glasses). Let stand at room temperature 15 minutes before serving.

Steps:

• Get out six 6- or 8-ounce glasses (I use 6-ounce tumblers that taper out from the bottom).
• Make the lemon layer. Place the gelatin in a medium bowl and pour in 1/4 cup of the water. Allow the gelatin to sit and "bloom" for 10 minutes. Combine the remaining water and the sugar in a saucepan and bring to a bare simmer. Simmer until the sugar has dissolved and remove from the heat. Pour over the gelatin mixture and stir until the gelatin has dissolved. Stir in the lemon juice. Pour about an inch into each of the glasses. Place in the refrigerator until set, about 1 hour.
• Make the blood orange gelée. Juice all but one of the oranges and strain. Juice the remaining orange, strain out the seeds but not the pulp, and add to the strained juice. Place the gelatin in a medium bowl and pour in 1/4 cup of the water. Allow the gelatin to sit and "bloom" for 10 minutes. Combine the remaining water and the sugar in a saucepan and bring to a bare simmer. Simmer until the sugar has dissolved and remove from the heat. Pour over the gelatin mixture and stir until the gelatin has dissolved. Stir in the orange juice. Make sure that the lemon layers are set and fill the tumblers with the orange juice mixture. If you want, you can make different patterns, alternating stripes of orange and yellow, but you will have to allow each layer to set before you add the next one. Refrigerate for several hours, until set.