Beatles Food Stocking Stuffer

Cream Tangerine, Montelimar, Ginger Sling with a Pineapple Heart, Coffee Dessert, Cherry Cream, Apple Tart, Coconut Fudge: all truffles named in the song Savoy Truffle.

I'm buying a Beatles-themed gift for someone and wanted to add a box of themed truffles. Any ideas of where to get these types of flavors? If this idea doesn't work out I can always throw in a box of Little Debbie's Marshmallow Pies.

Pie Lady wrote:Cream Tangerine, Montelimar, Ginger Sling with a Pineapple Heart, Coffee Dessert, Cherry Cream, Apple Tart, Coconut Fudge: all truffles named in the song Savoy Truffle.

Canady Chocolatier
824 South Wabash Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605-2113
312-212-1270

(also at Chicago French Market with a smaller selection, I think)

No tangerine but some orange pieces. No pineapple but ginger squares. No apple. Everything else they have plus tamarind, red pepper, papaya, passionfruit (my favorite of his fruit offerings) and lots of other wonderful things.

Well Fannie May has chocolate covered pineapple, no ginger and choc covered cherries to cover the cherries cream.
You could make or buy an apple tart. Coconut fudge could be made by making a white fudge and adding coconut extract and pieces. Truffles, of course Fannie May or godiva or even some drugstores carry them. Get some Coffee Nips to cover the coffee dessert. They aren' t at all bad especially if you like coffee flavored stuff. I think Montelimar is some kind of a nougat. Did you forget Strawberry Fields??

I don't think George was calling all those things truffles, just sweets or desserts. The only truffle was the savoy truffle.

Here's a nice picture of the Mackintosh Good News chocolate box.

http://georgeislove.wordpress.com/2007/ ... y-truffle/

May be food for thought in "Food in the Beatle's White Album": http://lthforum.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=17810

Not unrelated, a post about a scouser treat: viewtopic.php?f=16&t=22968&p=257790&hilit=conny#p257790

Lennon apparently liked corn flakes and cream after dinner: http://www.cornflakeswithjohnlennon.com/

stewed coot wrote:I don't think George was calling all those things truffles, just sweets or desserts. The only truffle was the savoy truffle.

grits wrote:Here's a nice picture of the Mackintosh Good News chocolate box.

http://georgeislove.wordpress.com/2007/ ... y-truffle/

That's what I heard too, that all those things came from that Good News box that Eric Clapton apparently couldn't keep his hands off of. The line "got to get them all pulled" was in reference to his nasty teeth.

David Hammond wrote:May be food for thought in "Food in the Beatle's White Album": viewtopic.php?t=17810

Not unrelated, a post about a scouser treat: http://www.lthforum.com/bb/viewtopic.ph ... ny#p257790

Lennon apparently liked corn flakes and cream after dinner: http://www.cornflakeswithjohnlennon.com/

I like that cookbook you mentioned in the top post. The other two things, however tasty-sounding, are very hard to wrap.

You know, truffles are not that hard to make on your own: they're basically a ball of thick ganache wrapped in chocolate or rolled in cocoa powder. Flavored truffles just have flavorings added; easy enough to add orange oil or even tangerine zest for your tangerine truffles, ginger and lime oil (or zest) for the ginger sling and mold it around a bit of dried pineapple, a bit of espresso powder added to the coffee, and just roll the coconut one in shredded coconut. You could use a dried apple center and cinnamon for the apple one, and a bit of cherry nougat for the center of the cherry cream one. Most craft stores have papers and boxes to wrap your own candy.

So, with a few ingredients, some good chocolate and some heavy cream, you're all set.

I would do exactly that if I had time. But I'm planning on making at least 8 batches of cookies, not including those for the cookie exchange this weekend, and I'm only just starting on decorating and gift-buying this weekend too. But if I can't find what I'm looking for, I might make them myself.

What about some sugar cubes? Only if your friend was in college around the late 60's/early 70's and has a sense of humor.

Josephine wrote:What about some sugar cubes? Only if your friend was in college around the late 60's/early 70's and has a sense of humor.

lol

Antonius wrote:

Josephine wrote:What about some sugar cubes? Only if your friend was in college around the late 60's/early 70's and has a sense of humor.

lol

We got some Christmas cookies in the form of window panes. So that's kind of the same idea.

David Hammond wrote:

Antonius wrote:

Josephine wrote:What about some sugar cubes? Only if your friend was in college around the late 60's/early 70's and has a sense of humor.

lol

We got some Christmas cookies in the form of window panes. So that's kind of the same idea.

Window pane... bummer, man... bad memories...



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all those things came from that Good News box that Eric Clapton apparently couldn't keep his hands off of.

The main thing Clapton couldn't keep his hands off of was Harrison's wife, Pattie Boyd. The muse that inspired "Something" and "Layla".