setting

Firming a mixture by chilling or by a gelling agent — custards, mousses, jellies, ganache, no-bake bases.

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Recipes using this

Heston Blumenthal's Lemon Tart

The version to make when the tart is the point of the evening rather than the thing after dinner. Everything that usually goes wrong — a soggy base, a filling that scrambles or weeps — is headed off by a step you can measure, and the whole thing is built in stages you can stop between.

Time
3 h estimated
Serves
12

White Chocolate and Ginger Cheesecake

Twenty minutes of work, no oven, seven ingredients, and the fridge does the rest overnight — the dessert to make when there are people coming and you want it finished the day before. It is Wagamama's, reverse-engineered.

Time
3 h 20 min
Serves
10