Ingredients
- 550g Sugar
- 40g Pectin
- 0.5L Fruit juice
- 180g Liquid glucose
- 100g Caster sugar
Serves: About 85 bite size petit fours | Recipe course: Dessert | Total time (min.): 25 plus resting |
Pâte de fruit is French for "fruit paste" and is chewy in texture, combining the sweet and sour flavours of natural fruit juice. Popular varieties of pates de fruit include mango, passion fruit, quince, blackberry, pear and pineapple.
Variations
Passion Fruit:
Squeeze 10 passion fruits to make 450ml of juice. Boil the juice with 50g of sugar, then pass it though the Colander & Sieve Attachment.
Apple
Instead of the purée use a 500ml of good apple juice, preferably pressed or freshly squeezed.
Redcurrant
Boil 450g of redcurrants with 75g of sugar.
Lime
Squeeze 10 limes to get 450ml of juice, then boil with 50g sugar.