Classic home desserts : a treasury of heirloom and contemporary recipes from around the world

958 Pages·2010·51.31 MB·English

by  Richardson

Table of Contents
Title Page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Dedication
Foreword
Introduction
CHAPTER 1: THE EXTENDED FAMILY OF COBBLERS AND CRISPS
Mixed Fruit Cobbler
Southern-Style Peach and Raspberry Cobbler with Pecan-Crunch Topping
“Summer Riches”
New Hampshire “Plate Cake”
Virginia Blackberry Roll
Pear Pandowdy
Pear or Apple Brown Betty with Cake Crumbs
Cranberry Crumble with Fall Fruits
Rhubarb-Strawberry Crisp with Cinnamon-Walnut Topping
Apple Mush
Swedish Apple “Pie” with Vanilla Sauce
Danish Apple and Cookie Crumb Dessert
Black and Blueberry Grunt (or Slump)
Traditional Two-Berry Buckle
Lightened Down-East Berry Buckle
The Finamore Shortcake
Berry Shortcakes with Buttermilk-Almond Biscuits
Blueberry Shortcakes with Low-Fat Cornmeal-Yogurt Biscuits
CHAPTER 2: COMPOTES AND BAKED FRUIT
Poached Plum and Raspberry Compote in Late-Harvest Wine Syrup
Chilled Citrus Platter
Marie’s Fall Fruit Compote
Honey-Stewed Quinces
Dutch Mennonite Dried Fruit Compote in Creamy Syrup
Madeira Dried Fruit Compote
Ruby Baked Apples
Crinkly Baked Pears, Trattoria-Style
Pears Poached in Mint Tea with Dark Chocolate Sauce
Broiled Pears with Warm Caramel Sauce
Warm Baked Apples with Macaroon Soufflé and Cool Custard
Pavlova
Forgotten Pudding
CHAPTER 3: CREAMS, FOOLS AND JELLIES
Light Cannoli Cream for Fresh Fruit
Plum Fool
Apricot-Amaretto Fool
Lime Syllabub
Cranberry-Raspberry Kissel
Pear Snow
Raspberry Flummery
Apricot Sponge
Citrus Wine Jelly
Jefferson’s Tea Cream
Sherry Velvet Cream
Spanish Cream
Modern Almond Blancmange
Panna Cotta and Poached Pears in Merlot Syrup
Ricotta Bavarian
Mont Blanc
Frozen Scottish Atholl Brose
Warm Amaretto-Cognac Zabaglione
Strawberry Nonsense
Marie’s Vanilla Spongecake
Charlotte Russe
CHAPTER 4: CREAMY PUDDINGS, CUSTARDS AND SOUFFLÉS
Double Chocolate Pudding
Butterscotch Pudding
South American Caramel Pudding
Banana Pudding
Grape-Nuts Pudding
Lemon Pudding Cake
Italian Ricotta Pudding
Warm Chocolate-Hazelnut Pudding
Fluffy Baked Tapioca Pudding
Asian-Style Coconut Tapioca Pudding
Durgin-Park’s Indian Pudding
Colonial Cup Custard
Pôts de Crème
Coffee Cup Crème Caramel
Jasper White’s Maple Sugar Crème Caramel
Mexican Chocolate Flan with Kahlúa
Cuban Caramel Custard
Brazilian Coconut Custards
Classic Crème Brûlée
Bert Greene’s Pumpkin Crème Brûlée
Oeufs à la Neige with Raspberries
Floating Island
Luli’s Trifle
Cabinet Pudding
Tiramisù
Thomas Keller’s Molten Chocolate
Blintz “Soufflé”
Little Pear Soufflés
Salzburg Little Mountain Soufflés
Edna Lewis’s Chocolate Soufflé
CHAPTER 5: RICE, BREAD AND NOODLE PUDDINGS
Luli’s Simplest Rice Pudding
Creamy Diner-Style Rice Pudding
Baked Custard-Style Rice Pudding
Sandy’s Citrus Rice Pudding
Wild Rice Pudding with Honey and Dried Cherries or Cranberries
Marie’s Brown Rice Pudding with Maple Syrup
Molded Rice Pudding with Caramel Sauce
The Coach House Bread-and-Butter Pudding
Challah Bread Pudding with Raisins
Buttermilk Corn Bread Pudding
Bon Ton’s New Orleans Bread Pudding with Whiskey Sauce
Omaha Caramel Bread Pudding
Commander’s Palace Bread Pudding Soufflé
Chocolate Silk Bread Pudding
Santa Fe Bread Pudding with Wine and Cheese
Italian Chocolate Bread Pudding
Caramelized Panettone Bread Pudding
Warm Pear Charlotte
Summer Pudding of Four Red Fruits
Gingerbread Custard
Mom’s New Noodle Kugel
Hungarian Cheese-Noodle Dessert
Czech Noodle and Apple Soufflé
New England Oatmeal Pudding with Warm Maple Syrup
CHAPTER 6: FRUIT PUDDINGS, SWEET PANCAKES AND DUMPLINGS
Baked Pear (or Apple) Batter Pudding
Custardy Prune Pudding
Sour Cherry Clafouti
Cranberry Duff
Persimmon Buttermilk Pudding
English Toffee Pudding
Rum-Glazed Sweet Potato Pudding
Oven-Steamed Figgy Pudding
Steamed Pumpkin Pudding with Ginger-Lemon Cream
Tennessee Old Maid’s Sweet Potato Pudding
Big Berry Popover
Reuben’s Legendary Apple Pancake
Hungarian Walnut-Filled Crepes with Warm Chocolate Sauce
Baked Apple Dumplings
Winter Fruit Dumplings
CHAPTER 7: COOKIES
Shrewsbury Cakes
Apees
Coconut Jumbles
John Thorne’s Lemon Icebox Crumbles
Sand Tarts
Gingerbread Hermits
M.F.K. Fisher’s Ginger Hottendots
Chocolate-Glazed Lebkuchen
Real Scottish Petticoat Tail Shortbread
Oatmeal Shortbread Squares
Brown Sugar Shortbread Wafers
New Mexico Anise Christmas Cookies
Tennessee Moonshine Cookies
Canadian Molasses Leathernecks
Savannah Lace Christmas Cookies
The Original Toll House Cookie
All-American Fudge-Chunk Brownies
Pecan-and-Caramel-Glazed Brownies
White Chocolate-Macadamia Blondies
Almond Brittle Cookies
Carlo’s Cookie Dough
1950s Pecan Puffs
Grandma’s Poppy Seed Crescents
Mary’s Pignoli
Crumiri
Toasted Benne (Sesame) Wafers
Thin Almond Wafers
Crunchy Almond and Hazelnut Cookies
Alsatian Christmas Cinnamon Stars
Hungarian Nut Crescents
Greek Egg Biscuits
Armenian Egg Biscuits
Sicilian Fig-Filled Cookies
Cornmeal-Almond Biscotti
Quaresimale
Cakes-Plain, Fancy and Beyond
CHAPTER 8: PLAIN CAKES AND CAKES WITH FRUIT
Lightning Cake
Hot-Water Spongecake
Eliza Leslie’s Indian Pound Cake
Currant-Orange Pound Cake
Little Round Pound Cakes
Whipped Cream Pound Cake
Sunshine Cake
Dick Witty’s Angel Food Cake
Chef Andrea’s Breakfast Polenta Cake
Patty’s Cornmeal Butter Cake
Palio’s Polenta Cake
Semolina Ring Cake from Friuli
Semolina Cake with Orange Flower Syrup
Karyl’s Blueberry Cornmeal Loaf
John’s Brown Sugar Raspberry Loaf
Rose’s Legendary Honey Cake
Polish Honey Cake
Rich, Soft Spice Cake
Grandma’s Banana Cake
Great St. Louis Orange Ring Cake with Orange Syrup
Edna Lewis’s Sunday Night Cake
East-West Ginger Cake
Eliza Acton’s Gingerbread
Marie’s Rich Gingerbread with Candied Ginger and Lemon Glaze
A Few Good Apples
Ligita’s Quick Apple Cake
Hilda’s Apple Cake
Margaret’s Apple Cake
Prune Spice Cake
All-Time-Best Summer Fruit Torte
Cranberry Upside-Down Cake
CHAPTER 9: COFFEE CAKES
Quintessential Coffee Cake
Brown Butter Coffee Cake
Hotel Cipriani’s Cocoa-Swirled Vanilla Breakfast Cake
Spiced Sandtorte
Shoo-Fly Cake
Coffee Coffee Cake with Espresso Glaze
Hawaiian Coconut Coffee Cake
Real Old-Fashioned Crumb Buns
Moravian Sugar Cake
Prune-Filled Pecan-Caramel Sticky Buns
Prune Lekvar
“Bee-Sting” Cake
Alsatian Cinnamon Cake
Helmstetter Kugelhopf
St. Louis Gooey Butter Cake
Coiled Yeast Coffee Bread with Nut Filling
CHAPTER 10: LAYER CAKES, FANCY CAKES, CHEESECAKES AND
CHOCOLATE CAKES
1–2–3–4 Cake
Jam Cake with Burnt Sugar Glaze
Lemon-Molasses Marble Cake
Lazy-Daisy Oatmeal Cake with Broiled Coconut-Pecan Icing
Applesauce-Carrot Cake with Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting
Dried Apple Gingerbread Stack Cake
Southern Coconut Layer Cake with Divinity Icing
Orange Blossom Cake
Boston Cream Pie
Carolina Huguenot Torte
Austrian Walnut Torte with Coffee Whipped Cream
Hazelnut Roll with Creamy Prune Filling
Peanut Brittle Crunch Cake
Italian Skillet Cheesecake
New York-Style Sour Cream Cheesecake
World War I Applesauce Cheesecake
Quick Chocolate Candy Cake
Fudgy Chocolate Layer Cake
Low-Fat Chocolate Nut Torte
Chocolate Chiffon Loaf Cake
Chocolate Cloud Cake
CHAPTER 11: FRUITCAKES AND NUT CAKES
Mother Church’s Spirited Dark Fruitcake
The Four Seasons’ Christmas Fruitcake
Mr. Guinness’s Cake
Election Cake
Tyrolean Christmas Fruitcake
Mrs. Dalgairns’ Scottish Seed Cake
Nina’s Fabulous Athenian Nut Cake with Rum Syrup
Sephardic Walnut Cake with Honey-Lemon Syrup
CHAPTER 12: PIE BASICS
Basic Pie Dough
Nick Malgieri’s Flaky Butter Pie Dough
Rich Tart Dough
CHAPTER 13: FRUIT PIES
Indiana Orchard Apple Crumb Pie
Down-East Cranberry Apple Pie
Dried Apple “Pour-Through” Pie
Rhode Island Chunky Pear Pie
Double-Berry Lattice Pie
Country Peach Pie
Lattice-Topped Peach-Berry Pie
Cape Cod Cranberry “Linzer” Pie
Fresh Grape Pie
Deep-Dish Rhubarb-Cherry-Berry Pie
Fried (or Baked) Apple “Half-Moon” Pies
Apple-Pecan Upside-Down Pie Baked in a Skillet
CHAPTER 14: CUSTARD, CREAM AND ICE CREAM PIES
Indiana Sugar Cream Pie
Buttermilk Silk Pie
Midwestern Butterscotch Cream Pie
Claremont Diner Coconut Cream Pie
White Chocolate Banana Cream Pie
Mile-High Caramel Cream Pie
Lutz’s Chocolate Cream Pie
Peanut Butter Pie with Fudge Topping
Iowa’s Favorite Custard Pie
Best-Ever Pumpkin Pie
Sour Cream Pumpkin Chiffon Pie
Sweet Potato Pie
Dried Peach Pie with Custard and Meringue
Grandmother’s Souffléed Lemon Pie
Sour Cream Raisin Pie
Split-Level Lime Chiffon Pie
Mary’s Rice Pie
Neapolitan Easter Pie
Hoover Toffee Ice Cream Pie
CHAPTER 15: NUT, SUGAR AND MINCEMEAT PIES
John Thorne’s Best-Ever Pecan Pie
Maine Maple Sugar Pie
New England Boiled Cider Pie
French Canadian Maple Sugar Pie
Orleans Sweet Potato—Pecan Pie
Dried-Fruit Mincemeat Pie with Lattice Cream Cheese Crust
Green Tomato and Apple Mincemeat Pie
CHAPTER 16: TARTS
Breakfast Pear Tarte Tatin
Free-Form Pear Galette
The World’s Best Lemon Tart
Long Island Double Blueberry Tart
Alsatian Pear Tart with Macaroon Crunch Topping
Cranberry-Raspberry Tart Pastiche
Gingered Carrot Custard Tart
Cornmeal Pear Tart with Frangipane
The Coach House Quince and Almond Tart
Belgian Sugar Tart
Caramel-Walnut Tart