Sweet Pepper Bavarois

Bavarois, mousses, jellies all seem to be out of fashion at the moment. Is it, perhaps, because orthodontics has strengthened the nation’s teeth so much that if it isn’t al dente or a bleeding chunk it has to be classed as fit only for babies? What a shame if these things were to become preserved in, well, aspic, to suffer the fate of the briar pipe or the antimacassar. The creamy unctuousness of the bavarois, which in the capricious way of fashion is still OK in puds, has much to recommend