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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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greatest cookie recipe ever devised

Meredith

Posted on December 12, 2011

The rain has stopped, but the sun is hiding.  The house is warm from baking.  There are cardinals in the garden. The note that accompanies the recipe for Viennese Crescents says that when the recipe was first published in the New York Times, “one food authority wrote that it was, in her opinion, the greatest cookie recipe ever devised.”  I read this today, somehow for the first time, after having enjoyed these every Christmas since I was a kid.  I say to myself, “uh-huh,” and reach for my jar of vanilla beans. They are toasted, nutty, fragrant, and really so perfect in their simplicity. The vanilla bean is macerated in the confectioners sugar that they roll in after baking.   They are rich, but delicate and crumbly.  The batter…

Categories: recipes, vegetarian

Tagged: baking, christmas cookies, new york times cookbook, recipes, vanilla bean, viennese crescents, walnuts

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