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Blaze : Monseignor, il est lor, lor de se rveiller. Don Salluste : Il en manque une ! B. : Vous tes sor ? D.S. : Tout fait sor ! Blaze: Sir, it is time, time to wake up. Don Salluste: One is missing! B.: Are you sure? D.S.: Totally sure! (dialogue between Blaze (Yves Montand) and Don Salluste de Bazan (Louis de Funs) as Blaze tries to wake Don Salluste up by moving gold coins in his hands) There are those language puns that I just wish I could translate but non, cela ne marche pas! (It just does not work). Unless you speak French or have seen the French classical hilarious comedy La folie des grandeurs featuring Louis de Funs and Yves Montand, you have no clue what I am talking about! Lets say thatand to make it short because I am quite bad at telling movie stories without adding more confusion, I am talking about de lor (gold) because Don Salluste was obsessed with gold. So as Blaze moves the gold coins in his hands to produce noise in order to wake Don Salluste up, his words are punctuated with the word or, which replace syllabes in his words. He says: Il est lor instead of Il est lheure (It is time). The language pun lies just right there! Monsignor instead of Monseigneur, sor instead of sr. I think you better see the movie before I ruin it all, even if you have never heard about it before. It is truly a French cult movie I watched over and over again while growing up. As to us, Il est lor du th, and I bet you had no idea that Tea Time could make you rich today. Financiers: Mes lingots dor Bars of Gold Every time it is the same old story. I am convinced that I am safe and have a favorite
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cake that I can bake when ideas are failing me. These days, the truth is that I cannot think straight because of the heat wave we live in. It is almost as if my neurones had escaped from my head to go on a vacation who-knows-where. Did God or whoever created this world really believe that humans and animals would enjoy living in hot humid weather? So here I am again, talking about the weather more than is healthy. In countries where people wake up with the same looking sky every day, they dont even notice the weather anymore. Cest vrai! It is true. My cousins husband from Nigeria onced told me so. After living in England for years, every time he would go back to Nigeria and talk about the weather with his friends, they would look at him with a weird puzzled look on their face, a Whats up with him? kind of look. But I discovered a new baby cake. Financiers have always intrigued me. It has to do with their shape, the almond and nutty taste, and the fact that they are small individual cakes, mini-versions of bigger cakes. You can find big financiers but small is what attracts me to them. Not that I do not want to get richer! But why call them financiers?and I think you will understand finance, the root of this word easily. What is the point of that? When I asked P. what his thought was, he simply replied: Ah mais cest la forme. Cest comme un lingot dor! Really? They are like bars of gold? Why did I not think about that? Of course, as my neurones are gone with the heat, this thought could just not have crossed my mind! Or I just think differently, and what should be obvious to me just flies above my head. The heat, I tell you. Financiers are traditional French cakes which base ingredients are a combination of white eggs , nutty butter (beurre noisette) and almond powder (called also almond flour, in French, poudre damandes). The shape of the cake is usually rectangular although it is possible to find oval financiers as well. Enough to convince you that they are just lovely little cakes? Whether it is hot or cold, we drink a lot of tea at home. P.s family background taught me that with tea should always come biscuits, cake or cookies. Does every Irish family do this? A cup of tea? A biscuit anyone? Luckily, we do not eat something with every cup of tea we gulp down, otherwise we would just., well we simply dont so there is no sinon. I decided to make a batch with two different flavors of financiers and test the texture a bit. One with Matcha green tea, the other one with a red fruit. But the flavors are endless! The results obtained were a moist nutty texture. As to which one I preferred, well lets see, which one was the heaviest in gold? In any case, they make you both repus, that is food happy! Enough to make many people happy. La joie du ventre, cest toute la richesse du monde ! (The joy of the stomach is all the richness of the world).

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Red Fruit Financiers

(for 8 financiers)

(I used strawberries) You need:

4 white eggs (at room temperature) 1 cup almond powder not packed (or 3.6 oz) 3 Tbsp hazelnut powder 1/2 cup + 1 Tbsp all-purpose flour 9 Tbsp butter 1 +1/2 cup + 4 Tbsp (or 6.5 oz) confectioners sugar 8 fresh strawberries (or 16 raspberries)

Steps:
Use a sieve to sift the flour and sugar before mixing them together. Add the almond and hazelnut powders to the dry preparation. Melt the butter in a pot and cook for 2 mns after boiling point, so that it has a nice nutty flavor(called then a beurre noisette), and let it cool down to room temperature. Filter the butter Add it to the preparation and mix well.

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Beat the egg whites until foamy but not firm. Add and mix well to get a sticky batter. Let the batter rest for a few hours before dividing it between 8 small greased and floured individual financier molds*. Wash the strawberries and slice them in halves. Place 2 halves in each cake, pressing the fruit down a bit. Preheat your oven at 350 F and bake the financiers for about 15 to 20 mns. Check whether they are cooked through. Remove from the oven and let them cool down for a few mns before unmoulding.

*Note: there are special molds for financiers (4.5 x 2.5 x 1.25). Mine are metallic ones. I bought them at Sur la table.

Matcha Tea Financiers

(for 8 financiers)

You need:
4 white eggs (at room temperature) 1 cup + 3 Tbsp almond powder 9 oz butter 1 +1/2 cup + 4 Tbsp (or 6.5 oz) confectioners sugar 2 tsp Matcha green tea 1/2 cup + 1 Tbsp all-purpose flour

Steps:
Follow the same steps with the variations that follow. Add the Matcha tea to the dry preparation, that is the flour/sugar/almond powder mixed together. Then proceed in the same way. The step with the red fruit is omitted of course.

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Le coin franais

Les financiers aux fruits rouges

(Pour 8 financiers)

(Jai utilis des fraises) Ingrdients :

4 blancs doeuf ( temprature ambiante) 100 g poudre damandes 20 g poudre de noisette 80 g farine 125 g beurre 180 g sucre glace 8 fraises (ou 16 framboises)

tapes :
Tamisez la farine et le sucre avant de les mlanger ensemble. Ajoutez la poudre damande et de noisette cette prparation sche. Faites fondre le beurre dans une casserole et amenez bullition, pour faire cuire pendant environ 2 mns. Vous obtenez un beurre noisette. Laissez-le refroidir pour quil soit temprature ambiante. Filtrez-le et ajoutez-le la prparation. Mlangez bien. Battez vos blancs doeuf pour quils soient mousseux mais pas fermes. Ajoutez-les votre prparation et mlangez bien. Laissez la pte reposer pendant quelques heures avant de la diviser entre 8 moules financier* graisss et farins. Lavez vos fraises et coupez-les en 2. Enfoncez deux moitis dans chaque petit gteau. Prchauffez votre four 180 C et cuisez les financiers pendant 15 20 mns. Sortez-les du four et laissez-les reposer pendant quelques minutes avant de les dmouler.

*Remarque : il existe bien sr des moules financiers (11 x 7 x 3 cm). Les miens sont mtalliques.

Les financiers au th vert

(Pour 8 financiers)

Ingrdients :
4 blancs doeuf ( temprature ambiante) 120 g poudre damande

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125 g beurre 180 g sucre glace

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2 cc de th vert Matcha 80 g farine

tapes :
Suivez les mmes tapes avec les variantes qui suivent. Ajoutez le th vert Matcha la prparation sche, cest dire la farine/sucre/poudre damandes mlange. Puis procdez de la mme faon. Omettez bien sr ltape avec les fraises.

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Ah Ah, je vois que tu es passe lacte pour les moules financiers Sage rsolution ! Th vert+fraises, a a lair divin. De lor, cest sor ! Liza at 3:50 pm Jun. 21, '06

mmmmh tout a toujours lair si bon ici et quelle bonne ide denfoncer les fruits ! bate at 3:50 pm Jun. 21, '06

oh! another matcha addicted like me! well done, it looks delicious! fiordizucca at 5:14 pm Jun. 21, '06

mmm, Im coming over with some coffee

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Yum, these look so moist and delicious! Geneve at 7:27 pm Jun. 21, '06

L tu me prends par les sentiments les financiers,yummyyyyyyyyyyy ! Framboise at 8:24 pm Jun. 21, '06

bravo! these are beautiful, as is your entire site! formidable! laura @ cucina testa rossa at 1:38 am Jun. 22, '06

Oh c est trs trs joli! Ellie at 3:02 am Jun. 22, '06

ummm ca a lair trop bien!! Audrey at 3:04 am Jun. 22, '06

Dans le mme ordre dide, jai fait un jour des financiers loseille, juste pour le jeu de mots. Et bien ctait trs bon !!! Bravo pour ce joli Ester at 3:08 am Jun. 22, '06 moment de culture et de gourmandise

JadORe ce film, que jai vu et revu pendant toute mon enfance! En attendant , je tai dja dit que tes photos taient chouettes? Cest flo at 3:14 am Jun. 22, '06 superbe, comme dhabitude!

Mais que cest beau. Je ne connaissais pas ton site, mais quelle merveille que ces recettes (et en plus elles semblent tre ma porte pour la nulle Vroumette at 3:48 am Jun. 22, '06 en cuisine que je suis!). Men vais de ce pas imprimer de ci de l quelques recettes qui mont lair fort allchantes. Je ne manquerai pas de mettre des photos de mes tentatives pour que tu constates (si oui ou zut), jy suis parvenue.

Oh la la, ce quils sont beaux tes financiers. Cest peut tre la recette qui va me faire acheter les moules. Ben oui, je les ai pas encore ! MarieT at 5:08 am Jun. 22, '06

OHHHHHHHH les 2 versions sont MAGNIFIQUES !! waooooooooo et les photos donnent envie de lcher lcran ! NAN NAN du calmeeeeeeeeee! 100g de sucre.. at 5:12 am Jun. 22, '06

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superbe!! comme toujours, je prends les 2 Alhya at 5:51 am Jun. 22, '06

SO pretty! i love how you take an everyday thing and make it into something so new and lovely. the strawberry financiers seem wonderful! iamchanelle at 8:23 am Jun. 22, '06 and that hot weather? helps us appreciate the refreshment of a cool breeze all the more. perhaps a providential lesson?

Another theory is that financiers got their name because people who work in the financial world, when they have their goter, they need to eat David at 8:24 am Jun. 22, '06 something that isnt messy. To keep their suits neat!

Je te trouve bien courageuse dessayer de traduire des jeux de mots, jai renonce depuis longtemps, cest lexercice le plus difficile qui soit. Gracianne at 8:34 am Jun. 22, '06 Par contre tes financiers parlent un langage universel aux gourmands du monde qui te lisent.

I bet theyd be good with a nice cup of hot cocoa too. Yum. Natalie at 8:49 am Jun. 22, '06

excellente ide que de comparer les financiers au th vert avec des lingots dor Lilo at 10:23 am Jun. 22, '06

wonderful! I want my weight in gold Claire emma at 11:31 am Jun. 22, '06

Tout est bon, cest comme dans le cochon ! Cocopassions at 1:46 pm Jun. 22, '06

Tentants, trs tentants! Jai essay la soupe la roquette un dlice! Caterine at 4:26 pm Jun. 22, '06

Hello Bea! Ivonne at 7:06 pm Jun. 22, '06 I have always wanted to make financiers but never have. I loved the story of the movie that you told! While my French is not so good Im sure it must be very funny. We are experiencing our own heat wave here in Toronto so I understand how you feel. Although I admire you in turning on the oven!

Liza, oui ca y est, je me suis lancee! Cest en or! Ba at 8:40 pm Beate, merci!

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Francesca indeed, and your Matcha tea ideas abund! Kat, not a problem, hurry! Geneve, thanks! Framboise, ah ben avec une gourmande comme toi, cest facile dis! Laura, thanks for your nice note! Ellie et Audrey, merci a toutes les deux! Ester, wouah, quelle superbe idee. Et alors, ils etaient donc sales? Flo, ah oui ce film, je viens dailleurs de le commander sur Netflix (si tu connais, un systeme de films qui remplacent les videos!) Merci a toi! Vroumette, merci de tetre arretee. Curieuse de voir tes realisations, je suis sure que tu es bien modeste! Marie, tout a fait, une des meilleures excuses pour te lancer! vas-y! 100g de sucre, ahaha;-) Alhya, gourmande, va! imachanelle, thanks my dear. Yes this weather indeed.it slows things down, so not that bad for me in many ways! David, ah interesting. I like this one! It makes sense! Gracianne, oui courageuse ou optimiste! gourmands est universel, thank god! Natalie, sweet idea! Lilo, cest vrai que ca ressemble, pas vrai ? Claire, alors ca fait combien ? Cocopassions, ah ah, merci! Caterine, je suis ravie que cela tait plu! Yeah! Ivonne, get the movie and watch it. It is hilarious! Ah oui le langage des

oh, l l i miss a lot of gorgeous things Fabienne at 3:01 am Jun. 23, '06

The joy of the stomach is all the richness of the world. Oh, Ba I am so glad I read your blog. I simply love the way you write. I Tanna at 5:53 am Jun. 23, '06 certainly am going to try to find the movie! The tea cakes look lovely and I need another use for my almond flour!!! Heat is never kind. Fun about the Nigeria part of the story but yes some places are about always the same for weather.

cest amusant je viens voir ton site tous les jours et l je ntais pas venu depuis quelques jours je regarde aujourdhui et je vois que nous avons eu astridcmoi at 6:43 am Jun. 23, '06 la mme envie de financiers, pas aux mmes parfums, comme quoi les envies gourmandes dpassent les frontires.

that peeping berry is absolutely beautiful. and the colour of the green just seeping through the cake is fantastic. i love teeny cakes and yours are no Vanessa exception.

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Je suis fan de ton blog que je suis trs rgulirement mais je navais jamais post Je viens dessayer la recette avec des framboises Marie-Luce at 2:37 am Jun. 24, '06 surgeles et ces financiers sont vraiment dlicieux ! Le petit got noisette est divin ! Jen ai fait la moiti seulement avec des framboises parce que la dernire fois que javais essay a avait dtremp la pte mais avec cette recette ctait parfait, ils ont gard une bonne tenue et ils sont encore meilleurs que les natures. Un grand merci pour tes recettes originales et dlicieuses et surtout pour ces photos magnifiques qui me font rver !

Fabienne, il vaut mieux tard que jamais Ba at 8:04 am Jun. 24, '06 Tanna, thanks for your kind words! Very appreciated!

Astrid, je vais de ce pas les voir!

Vanessa, thanks so much! Small is nice, isnt it?

Marie-Luce, ah super! Jen suis tres heureuse! Merci de me le faire savoir, ca fait plaisir!

Non, non, des financiers sucrs !!! Je tenvoie la recette !!! Top avec de la faisselle ! Ester at 5:12 am Jun. 28, '06

Looks delicious. I will try the matcha flavour. i really would like to see matcha flavoured baked goods on your blog. Latifa at 5:14 am Jul. 4, '06

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Je pense que les financiers sont effectivement meilleurs dans des moules spciaux et moins pais que ceux que vous avez utiliss car de ce fait, ils christine choc at 3:42 pm Nov. 4, '06 sont plus croustillants sur les bords, cest un dtail mais qui, mon avis, fait la diffrence.

Salut Ba! I made those amazing financiers today, but they turned out way too dry inside Any idea what could have gone wrong? I think my Anne at 1:02 pm May. 9, '07 oven is really bad (I live in a student house), and that I should have baked the for only 12 minutes instead of 18 Any tips?

Anne, Ba at 1:27 am May. 11, '07 I wish I could help. So sorry first that they turned out too dry. Did you make the fruit or green tea ones? It is true that oven temp can matter. Also, one key step in making financier is about how you add the melted butter (need to mix well until well incorporated). Do you think that your oven is higher than usual?

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WOW! What a great Blog you got here Bea! I will place you straight on my Blogroll and keep reading your Blog! ChrisBliss at 2:08 am Jul. 23, '07 Kind Regards from Dubai. ChrisBliss

Hi Bea, Enjoy your site, we are a genuine French cafe/ John Hough at 8:16 pm Nov. 4, '07 bakery in New Zealand, and thought you might be interested to know that the name financier is said to derive from the traditional rectangular mold, which resembles a bar of gold. Another theory says that the cake became popular in the financial district of Paris surrounding La Bourse du Commerce (the former name of the Paris stock exchange). We serve them topped with whipped cream, berries, or other fruit, and served accompanied by ice cream or other frozen confections. Merci

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I made the red fruit financiers with raspberries yesterday, and they turned out great! The proportions in this recipe are perfect, and the cakes are very Marina at 9:53 pm Aug. 27, '11 easy to make. The taste is heavenly, very almond-y, and the texture is awesome: soft and nicely moist in the middle, and crunchy, a bit chewy on the edges. The berries are a nice touch, they make the financiers look so cute and sophisticated, and are a nice contrast to the sweet sugary cake. The only problem was that my new silicone financier molds were very shallow (I couldnt find deeper metallic ones), so my financiers are a bit flatter than yours! My husband (who is French!) loved them too! Will definitely make the green tea ones in the near future! Thanks!

the recipes look delicious!! and i defetenly try them but how do i use the matcha tea?? is it a powder?? jonathan at 1:19 pm Nov. 22, '11

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