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by Brian | Apr 15, 2019 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
The Italian Regional Cookbook by Valentina Harris is a 600-page bible of Italian recipes. And, techniques. This cake, beautiful to behold, is quite unusual in the way it is made. Normally, when using beaten egg whites, you reserve them to the end and...
by Brian | Jan 14, 2019 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
It’s January 14th. How is that New Year’s Resolution to cut down, or eliminate, dessert. I understand. I have the same problem. You want dessert, but how can you have something healthy. And won’t you be tempted to adorn, say, a healthy cake with “unhealthy”...
by Brian | Nov 30, 2018 | Dessert Digest
Remember fruit cocktail? We used to get it in grade school, though I doubt they do that anymore in the pizza-age. When was the last time you even bought a can of fruit cocktail? For Suzi and me, it was about forty years. But an amazing book, American Cake by Annie...
by Brian | Nov 26, 2018 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
My niece Rachel visited us recently. She’s eleven and is a whiz in the kitchen. “Here,” I said, “pick something.” I had given her my new copy of The European Cake Cookbook, something I reviewed with delight recently. Now, the book has a Coffee Chocolate Cake that I...
by Brian | Nov 8, 2018 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
Ah, fall. Time for those hearty dishes that you could not imagine on a summer night. Roasts, simmering veggies. Potatoes and carrots and parsnips. Oh, you’ve never eaten one have you? I can remember walking through the grocery store with my mother and pointing...
