Volume I Confiserie de Carbone et d’Or

cafe sweets

An atelier of pressed confection. The work is offered in batches of forty pieces. Each piece is registered, embossed, and signed in the colophon.

II — The Specimen

Praline Tonka, set in fluted bronze

The praline is set in fluted bronze. The temper is held at twenty-nine degrees centigrade. The shell yields at a force of three Newtons. Tonka bean is grated against the kernel at the moment of moulding; the volatiles are sealed beneath a single layer of cocoa butter, polished to the gloss of dark stone.

The interior carries a praline of caramelised hazelnut at sixty-two percent mass, finished with a hairline of fleur de sel. The piece is presented on a black slate plate at room temperature, never below sixteen degrees, never above twenty.

Plate II.i Praline Tonka · pressed bronze, fleur de sel
III — Index of Ingredients

Twelve constituents, registered

The atelier registers only twelve constituents in its working ledger. Each is sourced from a named producer, recorded by lot, and entered against the batch in which it is pressed. No constituent is admitted without provenance; none is substituted on the day.

i. vanilla orchid · ii. cacao pod · iii. bergamot · iv. tonka · v. juniper · vi. fig · vii. fleur de sel · viii. hazelnut · ix. rosemary · x. verjus · xi. saffron · xii. black honey

IV — Colophon

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Pressing temperature
twenty-nine degrees centigrade
Batch
No. 0114 of 0040
Atelier hours
Thursday — Saturday · 14:00 — 19:00

This monograph is set in Jost and Cormorant Garamond, pressed in carbon and gilt, and offered without persuasion. The work exists. Those who care will find it.