Easy Creamy Unbaked Refrigerator Dessert

16 years ago

The other day at our neighbourhood Austrian restaurant, the owner, Teresa brought us a sample of her homemade fridge dessert which was creamy and delicious! I pictured it on the WFD thread and Michelle asked if I could find out how it was made.....and so I did, cornering Teresa and getting as much as I could from her. Talk about an easy dessert....but as she doesn't measure....I'm passing on the rather vague amounts. I don't think it matters a bit as you can't really make a mistake with this one. I'm going to try it out but using Oreo cookies!!

Creamy Refrigerator Dessert

whipping cream....about 1 quart (1 liter)

(fresh cheese) .... about 1 lb (2 pkgs of 250 grams each)

ladyfinger biscuits

pineapple juice ....a little

lemon juice ....a little

sugar.......2 TBS

vanilla......to taste

loaf pan

tin foil to line pan

1. Place ladyfingers on a large plate and sprinkle with a mixture of lemon and pineapple juices......just enough to give them some flavour.

2. Whip cream and quark together, adding sugar and vanilla.

Line loaf pan with tin foil and spread a layer of the whipped mixture.

3. Add a layer of ladyfingers, pointing all in the same direction......add more of the cream mixture.

4. Add another layer of ladyfingers, this time arranging them at a 45 degree angle to the first (lattice style).

5. Add more whipped mixture and ladyfingers as in step 3. Continue alternating for total of three or four layers. Top with the rest of the whipped mixture.

6. Cover with foil and refrigerate overnight or longer: 8 hours or more.

7. Unmold carefully by turning upside down onto long plate or platter and slice crosswise.

Courtesy of Teresa of "Tiroler Alm Restaurant"

Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife.

SharonCb

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centralcacyclist
16 years ago
I've never seen quark here. Does it go by another name here? Or is there an equivalent that can be subbed? Mascarpone maybe?
canarybird01
Original Author
16 years ago
Eileen you may be able to find it somewhere but quark has more tang than mascarpone....perhaps you could try a combo of sour cream and a smooth cottage cheese. It's actually a very fresh cheese which is used to make German cheesecakes....could you find 'fromage frais' which might do? Here's a website in USA that sells it, and it does go by the name of Quark.

I've put a link below that tells you how to make your own, but that sort of defeats the purpose of this being a really easy recipe. I also think you could sub a light cream cheese, the soft kind that comes in a tub. The result will be heavier and more like a cheesecake but still very good.

I know I found quark in the supermarkets in Canada and I think Danone is an international brand now. I hope that's some help.

SharonCb

Here is a link that might be useful: Making Quark
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Carol Schmertzler Siegel
16 years ago
Never seen quark here either, but food subs has a recipe using ricotta and sour cream.

I bet it's great with the oreo's but it looks really great with the lady fingers!
Thanks, Sharon!

Here is a link that might be useful: food subs - quark
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16 years ago
Looks like a great recipe.

I've noticed a lot of the chain grocery stores her in Baltimore new sell packaged Queso Fresca. Which is good, because we've had several cases of M. Bovis (a tuberculosis disease) in children who have died from eating smuggled queso fresca at street fairs and festivals in the mid-Atlantic area.

If you have a noticeable Latino population, you may find it in your grocery stores, too, or certainly in a Latin American grocery.

Here's some instructions I found for making your own Quark

"Quark can be made by putting plain yogurt in cheese cloth to drain for a day or so in the fridge."
fenworth
16 years ago
Wow I haven't thought about Quark in a dog's age. For some reason my sister and I always thought it a funny word, and we always gave it a very long rolled R. I'm going to try that milk/buttermilk recipe out and see if my mom approves. I know she's long missed it in this country.
centralcacyclist
16 years ago
I found this recipe, as well.

I will do this when I need something to take somewhere. Too much for us at home.

Here is a link that might be useful: Homemade quark.
Adnama
16 years ago
Hey Mom4,

I've noticed the queso fresco, too, (I recently moved to Baltimore) but it's not necessarily any safer just 'cause it's in the supermarket. It's made from unpasteurized milk. Also, it's milder than marscapone, IMO, so it's probably not like quark (which I haven't tried). It is really good in pupusas, though.
cooperbailey
16 years ago
hey Mom4 and adnama,
I am in Balto, too! And the Giant in my neighborhood had a selection of latino type cheeses I have never seen before, but not any longer-I guess not much call for it. The Sams club has them now tho. I always am tempted, but forget to look for recipes for their usage.until I see them in the store again that is.
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ritaotay
16 years ago
SharonCb, your link to Making Quark... I just spent 3 hours there!!!!

And I plan on going back (LOL)... For those of you who didn't check it out you really need to check it out... It's the Nordic Recipe Archive and it has some fantastic Finnish and a few weird recipes ( Blood Pancakes, Reindeer Stew )... The best feature of the site are the links in the recipes, if an ingredient is in red and underlined you can click on it and it will show you a picture and tell you everything you wanted to know about it... If you're pressed for time it could also be the worse feature because in the descriptions you'll find links to other recipes... lol

Thank you, so much for the GREAT link Sharon!!!

Rita

Here is a link that might be useful: Nordic Recipe Archive
canarybird01
Original Author
16 years ago
You're welcome Rita. I just stumbled on that Nordic Recipe Site by accident when searching for a method of making quark and still have to have a thorough look at it. It's very well designed and includes a convenient converter between metric and imperial measures, cooking weights and temperatures.

It really has one of the best detailed sections on different dairy products such as quark, fresh cheeses, kefir etc. that I've seen on the web. Glad you found it interesting!

SharonCb
msafirstein
16 years ago
Gosh thanks Sharon. I just think this dessert is so pretty and would be an excellent Summery sweet dessert.

For sure copied and pasted!!

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Cloud Swift
16 years ago
For making quark, it sounds like one could drain it like we drain yougurt cheese. Instead of cheese cloth in a strainer, we use a coffee filter in a Melitta filter cone. It fits over a recycled large yogurt container and is more convenient than fitting our strainers or colanders into the fridge.

The subs site says yogurt cheese is more acidic than quark so maybe a mix of yogurt cheese and one of the milder curd cheeses like ricotta or marscapone would approximate quark.
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