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Leon Krohn

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  1. Hi everyone, I have been working as a pastry chef in France for the last years and I wanted to ask for your help for a short paper that I have to write for the BTM (a french pastry exam) I want to do a quick comparison for the price for basic ingredients in the US compared to France. However I am trouble finding decent information for prices. I was looking for two to three chocolates, something easy to aquire such as Valrhona and Cacao Barry. The same goes for fruit purées. I have not yet been able to find a price for your standard purée (lemon, raspberry, strawberry etc) from Boiron or Capfruit. So are there any pastry chefs amongst you that could help me out by letting me know how much they pay for their couvertures, fruit purees, cream and butter so that I can get a better idea. Thank you very much in advance and a hello from Paris!
  2. Hello everyone, this is my first time actually 'participating' in this forum (apart from having read through topics the other times) I love Chai Masala, in my case more the 'western' drinking method, we used to infuse the tea/spices and then drink it with a bit of honey and steamed milk as you would for a 'latte or cappuccino' I want to try and see if I can make a ganache with it that really carries the flavor but my first try so far has failed. I used a formula from Greweling for it, it's his recipe for a white chocolate green tea ganache which uses a ratio of 2.7, glucose and cocoa butter. I am not sure if I would be allowed to post the proportions here, so I am leaving them out for now, just in case. The ganache was a bit too soft to be slabbed, I will try to make molded once the next time, and unfortunately was absolutely terrible. Extremely sweet and not at all what I was looking for. For this ganache I only used the spices cinnamon, cardamom and muscat, made as an infusion with black tea. Does anyone have any recipes that you can recommend, I realize that white chocolate is a bit more tricky but for now I will have to give it a few more tries until I switch to milk / dark chocolate. Thanks, Leon
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