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Cooks consider mascarpone an ideal base for sweet desserts, owing to its supple smoothness and mild, creamy taste.
Mascarpone is a fresh dairy product that resembles a combination of cream cheese, heavy whipping cream, crème fraîche, and English clotted cream. Made from the cream of cows’ milk, it has a sweet, rich flavour and a texture like cake icing.
Varieties
Fine varieties of mascarpone are made in both the United States and Italy. Although most Italian mascarpone is made in Lombardy, a scarcer type, made from water buffalo milk, is produced in Campania, near Naples.
Preparation, uses, and tips
Cooks consider mascarpone an ideal basis for sweet desserts, owing to its supple, spreadable qualities and mild, creamy taste. It can be used in main courses with pasta, in combinations with stronger-flavored cheeses like Parmesan or Gorgonzola, as an ingredient adding flavour and body to creamed soups (as, for example, tomato); it also adds flair as a garnish or in salads when combined with low-fat yoghurt in herbed salad dressing. It can be mixed with anchovies, mustard, and herbs to make an appetizing spread on artisan bread. In the creation of desserts, mascarpone is combined with eggs and sugar to fill pastry tubes, such as cannoli, or to garnish ladyfingers, and is said to provide the basis for exceptional cheesecake. Mascarpone can also be enjoyed as-is, just sprinkled with sweetener, cocoa, cinnamon, finely ground coffee beans, or grated chocolate, and it makes a perfect companion for strawberries, raspberries, or fruit salad.
