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Baking: From My Home to Yours
By Dorie Greenspan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - 2006
Chocolate Biscotti : page 144
Really good and really easy. I had a yield of 16 generous-size biscotti. I found the baking times to be a bit long, but that's easy to adjust.
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Cottage Cheese Pufflets : page 148
This recipe is a treasure. The dough is so tender and the results are the most charming little "puffiest" -- the resulting pastry is just a delight. I've made these very small (one-bite) and larger (several bites) and filled them with marmalade, various preserves, lemon curd, Nutella---all with great success. The dough comes together very easily in the food processor and is easy to work with as long as it doesn't get too warm. But it's very forgiving--a few minutes in the fridge and it's ready to go again.
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My Favorite Pecan Pie : page 327
I have made this twice now, the first time as written and the second time without the chocolate and I much prefer it without the chocolate. Again, I use the Pie and Pastry Bible's Cream Cheese Pastry for the crust, but follow the baking instructions and find them to work very well. Te addition of the espresso powder is brilliant--not obvious at all in the final product but does add a depth of flavor that is terrific. This is really quite a simple pecan pie, requiring less prep than most, yet it is very very good.
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The Most Extraordinary Lemon Cream Tart : page 331
This has become my standard lemon curd/cream. I think it is absolutely marvelous. The first time I made it, it seemed a bit fussy. I came to the recipe again and made it with ease. It can be a bit tedious in the stirring to temp phase, but other than that, it comes together beautifully. I pour the hot creme into the blender jar and let it cool a bit. Then whizz it with the butter and strain it into a wide pyrex dish, cover with plastic film and refrigerate--the wide bottomed 2 quart measuring cup, pre-chilled, really speeds up the cooling process. It's ready to be piped into pie shells within a couple of hours. I use an unsweetened tart dough and mini tart pans and serve the tarts with a bit of whipped cream and some fresh fruit.
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