Saints Preserve Us

Preserving is like government surveillance. Once you start looking for it, you start seeing it everywhere: at the mall, at the corner bar, in your house, at work, at the ball game, your daughter’s locker at school, on a hike, a car trip, a picnic, a trip to the moon. It’s everywhere man. Just about […]

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Gimme the Sweet Stuff

Like this week’s bread, ciabatta, pecan pie is a baked good without much of a pedigree. There are no known recipes for pecan pie that date back further than 1925. The reason for this is fairly straightforward: corn syrup, one of pecan pie’s primary ingredients, wasn’t in common use before that time. Though corn syrup […]

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Petits Fours Recipe

For such a terrific little cake, the list of components is relatively short. You can find the génoise, syrup and marzipan recipes under the components menu. 1 recipe genoise 1 recipe simple syrup spiked with 2 tablespoons cognac 1 1/4 cups raspberry jam 12 ounces marzipan Confectioner’s sugar for rolling

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