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Pumpkin Pie I learned in cooking school:
24 oz. all purpose flour, 8 oz. sugar, 1 ½ t. baking powder, 1 t. salt, 8 oz. butter worked throughout until it disappears, and 5 eggs to bring it all together into a mass of dough and chill it 1 hour. If you are in a really dry [...]
Apple (pie) Anonymous
This particular pie (above) is decorated with a sophisticated, ‘falling leaves’ pattern, but my mom has been known to decorate the tops of pies with strange, free form, cut-out blobs of dough she says are turkeys, and little blobs of dough she claims are turkey poops….(because, “dessert is supposed to be fun.”)
If you are an avoider of [...]
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1 lb. chocolate
8 oz. cream
Pinch of salt
3 T. (1 ½ oz.) grappa
1-2 oz. invert sugar – (honey or, glucose syrup)
Chop the chocolate and hold in a bowl off to the side.
You just have to get the best, most badass [...]
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shells:
7 oz. flour
2 teaspoons sugar
1 teaspoon cocoa powder
a pinch of salt, pinch of ground coffee, pinch of cinnamon
1 fl. oz. oil
1/2 fl. oz. vinegar
2 fl. oz. red wine
Bring dough together by hand, combining wet ingredients with dry-
wrap in plastic, [...]
I used to make these at Gusto Ristorante e bar Americano for the cookie plate. I learned the general idea of how to make them from Nick Malgieri during my time at ICE. We talked biscotti when he found out I worked evenings for Jody Williams over at Giorgione. This is my summertime version, which, are [...]
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Place in a heatproof metal or glass bowl:
10 egg yolks, two pinches of salt, 1 cup of sugar, ½ cup of Kahlua.
Place the bowl over the mouth of a saucepan containing a two or three cups worth of water [...]
Ready-set-Whoopie: oven set to 375’
Sift:
1 cup sugar, 2 cups flour, 5 ½ T. cocoa, 1 t. baking soda, 1 t. baking powder, and ½ t. salt
Then add and mix to combine:
½ c. shortening (that’s right. Pretend it’s the great depression, when this recipe was first made and get out the Crisco – now they even [...]
Roasted Pineapple
Using pink peppercorns, ginger root, and one vanilla bean (cut in half)
First, make a syrup by boiling water and sugar in a medium saucepan. Go 8 cups of water to 3 cups of sugar, and bring to a boil, letting the sugar dissolve and the mixture boil about 5 minutes. Skim any scuzz that [...]
This is nothing fancy. Which is why it rocks. I learned how to make this from my mom.
Preheat oven, 350′
Sift into a bowl:
3 1/2 c. flour
2 1/2 c. sugar
1 1/4 t. salt
2 t. baking soda
1 t. nutmeg
1 t. cinnamon
then add, and mix by hand with a wooden spoon until well combined:
4 eggs, beaten some
2/3 c. [...]
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