For anyone looking to retool this year’s holiday menu and add in a dash of the unexpected, we have a few ideas.
, but a hearty serving of turkey, stuffing, and mashed potatoes is determinedly uncontroversial.
Still, for anyone looking to retool this year’s holiday menu and add in a dash of the unexpected, we have a few ideas. In plumbing Novemberfrom decades past, we’ve uncovered a few inspired alternatives to the humdrum pumpkin, apple, or pecan pie. “Pumpkin pie belongs to the Thanksgiving dinner quite as much as turkey does,” one writer reflected in 1924, “but some outsiders—some ‘anglers in the lake of darkness’—do not love it as no doubt it should be loved.
Go back with us to the days when baking times were something of a guessing game, “coconut” had an “A” in it, tablespoons were “tablespoonfuls,” and sour cream was a perfectly normal base for a dessert. Go, and try something new—or, in this case, something old:To make thoroughly good puff paste wash one pound of butter in ice water. Put one pound of pastry four in a deep dish and make a hole in the center.
Next, the flour and cream of tartar are sifted together and the milk added by degrees. For flavoring, lemon, rosewater, or nutmeg may be added, and, last, the soda in a little of the milk. This should be served very hot. If these directions are followed, a delicious pudding is the result; otherwise, it will be heavy.
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