Mr. Dendievel simmers his beef in a Chimay beer, offsetting its tartness with sweet prunes and carrots.
The Odessa salad ($6.85) is a harmonious blend of flavors and textures, with tender but tart greens, shredded beets, slivers of sweet prunes and walnuts.
Keftedes ($13), or savory veal meatballs with pine nuts and almond slivers, are served with sweet prunes in a red wine sauce over tiny, paper-thin squares of pasta.
Among the entrees, duck magret wore a glossy, slightly sweet prune-Armagnac reduction, but the hit of the dish was an abundance of superb, caramelized cubed baby turnips, maybe the best I've ever had — sweet and full of flavor but not overpowering.
V. doniana sweet has a unique sweet prune-like aroma when ripened.
Also, the OAVs indicated that hexyl acetate, ethyl-2-methylpropionate, ethylbutanoate, linalool, β-damacenone and (Z -rose oxide contributed to the sweet prune-like aroma of the Vds.
In addition, results have shown that ethylbutanoate, β-damascenone, ethyl-2-methyl propionate, linalool, hexyl acetate and (Z -rose oxide contributed highly to the sweet prune-like aroma of V. doniana sweet.
In addition results of odour activity values showed that ethylbutanoate, β-damascenone, ethyl-2-methyl propionate, linalool, hexyl acetate and (Z -rose oxide contributed highly to the sweet prune-like aroma of the fruit.
Although, a number of sugars [4], amino acids and minerals [5] have been reported in Vds, however, there is no study yet on the components responsible for the unique sweet prune-like aroma of the Vds.
Under Lustau's husbandry, the nondescript Pedro Ximenez -- a white grape widespread in Andalucia and nicknamed P. X. -- is transformed into a plush, mouth-filling, sweet-prune nectar that lingers to a fare-thee-well.
Any dried fruit will work, but dried pears hold their shape best and are a little less sweet than prunes and apricots.
