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Bain Marie Custard Bread Pudding

Meredith

Posted on January 1, 2014

This bread pudding is a soft custard even more tender than a flan, and all of the sugar is in sauce at the bottom of the double boiler, until you invert it.  This allows a rustic mix of flavors, as the ingredients are layered into the pot, and cooked gently for a couple of hours, and then allowed to rest before being turned out.  The recipe is so simple, but I have fancied it up with Cognac, vanilla bean, and freshly grated cinnamon and nutmeg if you like.  You could do many variations: almond extract, ginger, different types of bread, bourbon instead of Cognac, dried fruits– I have been thinking about this while it simmers away. I would swoon with adjectives telling you how…

Categories: dessert, recipes, vegetarian

Tagged: bain marie, bread, bread pudding, cognac, custard, dessert, double boiler, food, pudding, recipe, vanilla bean

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oh, the burden

Meredith

Posted on November 5, 2011

“The orchards were loaded with fruit, and the forest trees showered nuts upon the ground. In every field were groups of persimmon trees, their branches bending under a burden of luscious fruit, which the frost had coated with sheeny purple outside, and made sweeter than fine wine within. Over all bent softly brilliant skies, and the bland, bracing air was charged with the electricity of life and happiness.” – John McElroy, The Red Acorn: A Romance of the War, 1883. There really is something magical about a fruit this luscious and sweet ripening in the cold season.  Persimmons are a food many of you may have seen at high-end markets in places like California, or in recipes on fancy gourmet blogs.  These are not the persimmons McElroy speaks of…

Categories: recipes, Uncategorized, vegetarian, Where food comes from

Tagged: american, fuyu, holiday dessert, persimmon, pudding, recipe

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