by Brian | Mar 7, 2015 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
This past Monday I reviewed the book Bittersweet, a volume dedicated to winter desserts using “in-season” fruits, like those fall apples that have been gently stored and allowed to intensify in flavor. This Sunday it is again still winter, again still...
by Brian | Mar 5, 2015 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
Yesterday’s post was for an Ultimate Butter Cake from Flavor Flours, the latest and greatest book from Alice Medrich. The cake was lovely and we baked two rounds. We froze one for a quick dessert treat on some future weeknight. And the unfrozen layer was...
by Brian | Mar 4, 2015 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
Yes, today is officially Alice Medrich Day. On today’s other post is a cookbook review of Alice’s latest book, Flavor Flours. It’s a simple book to describe: it’s a masterpiece. You don’t need to throw out all the white wheat flour...
by Brian | Feb 26, 2015 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
I love my Bananas Foster. My agreement with Suzen, Clause 4.3.1a in the marriage contract, is that I can make it once a year. Suzen’s lawyer was a nice man, but, fortunately for me, not comprehensive. Here’s a recipe that is not, I would maintain, Bananas...
by Brian | Feb 17, 2015 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
A fool is an English dessert of distinction. There is no entomological agreement about how “fool” came to mean dessert. Originally, in the late 1500’s, the dessert was specifically a sweet custard into which one folded pureed stewed fruit, in...
by Brian | Feb 15, 2015 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
In last week’s Throwback Thursday Cookbook Review, I featured one of the works by an American icon: Maida Heatter’s Book of Great American Desserts, TBT Cookbook Review: Maida Heatter’s Great Book of American Desserts This is a wonderful and...
