Making a Tiramisu, dspsrv cookbook is out again.

Tiramisu

No! put me down!
roughly translated from the Italian as "Pick me up" - "Tira mi su" 
due to the caffeine and alcohol content :)
Now that we're accessable by lots of people (not that we're gonna be) full credit for this excellent dish must go to Lucia and the Italian nation in general.

Before this little bit of paper disintegrates :-

Edible ingredients:

Strong coffee    (~2 bowls made with a heaped spoon (table) of coffee)
 ~80g siucra
Finger biscuits/Sponge trifle 200g, 2pkts
CocoA powder
2 eggs - 2yolks, 1white used
Mascarpone cheese 1pk
2 spoon bacardi rum (not too much Paul!)

Tools:
A bowl to hold the finished product - say roughly dish size but it
needs sides to hold the floppy stuff in!
Various other bowls, spoons & forks, kettle to boil water 'n stuff.
An arm like a WWF SuperWrestler or Lucia.

The compulsory ASCII barfic diagram:

            |_________________________| -sprinkling of coco on top
            |CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC|
            |CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC| -layer of creamy gunk
            |BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB|
            |BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB| -layer of coffee-soaked biscuits
            |CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC|
            |CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC|
            |BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB|
            |BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB|
            +-------------------------+

1. Mix siucra and 2 yolks.
   Beat really hard + for long time until it goes a light colour.
       Your arm should be falling off now, don't worry >;) there's more
       beating to come.
   Add mascarpone and bacardi and mix in.

2. Beat egg-white hard (again! :( ) until stiff.
       Have fun persuading your fork to stand up! - If it doesn't
       say 'ahhh - this forks too thin' and give up :).

3. Mix 1 & 2 together to give you some creamy gunk.
   N.B. fold gently together, do NOT beat.

4. Mix big spoon of coffee with a bowl of boiling water.
       Don't SCALD yourself! We don't want any dead flesh in this dish,
       it's meant to be Vegetarian remember! (not that I can see anything
       vegtablike about coffee, cake, cheese, eggs, sugar or bacardi!)

5. Soak each biscuit in the coffee before layering in bottom of dish.
       Again: don't scald! Only a silly person :) like, say, Lucia would
       also dunk her fingers into the boiling coffee! :O
   If you're using the cake you'd better skip this pre-soak, you don't
   really want it to disintegrate before it gets to the intended bowl.

6. When you have a layer use more coffee to soak biscuits/cake thoroughly
   - they should be squishy to touch (ugh!).
   Now cover this layer with about half the creamy gunk and smooth it out.

7. After another layer of soaked biscuits and cream leave in the fridge to
   recover a while. Sprinkle with the cocoa sometime.

8. Force yourself and some hapless friends to eat the horrible stuff! :)

Ingredients, beating eggs

 dspsrv cookbook #bake section here:
http://dspsrv.waider.ie/cookbook/bake.html#__Tiramisu_

And parts here:
http://www.dspsrv.com/~jamesc/me/kitchen.html#%22Tiramisu%22