These days when you eat out and the restaurant offers bread pudding, it is always the raisin and cinnamon kind, which I despise. However, when I was a kid, the greatest treat my mother could make for us was chocolate bread pudding. I don’t know what it was about this that made it so wonderful…probably … Continue reading
After reading the recipe for bread & butter pickles recently, and then doing some research on making pickles, I decided I would try to make this recipe from the Farmer’s Record. I was inspired by seeing smallish cucumbers at the store that would make the perfect B&B slices. In my research on pickles I learned … Continue reading
This recipe for ice cream made with corn starch is missing quite a lot, namely cream and instructions. Making ice cream with corn starch is not new, clearly, but it has enjoyed a recent reappearance in gourmet kitchens because corn starch is used in the gelattos and cream desserts of other countries, such as India … Continue reading
This will make you a chocolate-y cake with some creamy and smooth icing. A note on the icing. XXXX sugar is now known as confectioners sugar or icing sugar. It is sugar crushed superfine with about 3% cornstarch to prevent clumping. Secondly, this icing isn’t cooked, so beware of the fact that you are using … Continue reading
Unfortunately this recipe doesn’t have a name to identify what kind of pie this is, but the pudding filling makes it a cream pie of some kind with a meringue topping. My best guess on the crust is that it calls for graham crackers. I will put some common sense directions in italics. Cream Pie … Continue reading
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