Vanilla kifli is the traditional Hungarian holiday cookie. Ingredients ¾ cup unsalted butter, softened ½ cup white sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 2 egg yolks 2 cups all-purpose flour ½ cup vanilla sugar 2 squares (1 ounce) semisweet chocolate, chopped…
This page incorporates text from the public domain cookbook The Cook’s Decameron: A Study In Taste, Containing Over Two Hundred Recipes For Italian Dishes by Emily Waters. Ingredients Poultry forcemeat 2 tbsp béchamel sauce 4 tbsp green pea purée 2…
Radish tart is a tasty and colorful pie, best served hot from the oven. Fresh red radishes and yellow cheese give this pretty pie an interesting look and taste. Ingredients 1 cup all-purpose flour ½ cup cold butter 1 cup…
This quince pudding recipe originates from the 1881 Household Cyclopedia. Ingredients Quinces Sugar Ground ginger Ground cinnamon 1 pint cream 3–4 ea. egg yolks Procedure Scald quinces until tender. Skin them and scrape the pulp into a mixing bowl. Blend…
Ingredients 1 pound (450 g) dried pasta 6 ounces (170 g) pancetta, diced small 1 head (~500 g / 1.1 pound) cauliflower, cut into florets 4 cloves of garlic, sliced thin 1 can (14 ounces / 400 g) diced tomatoes,…
This is a tasty and easy-to-make soup recipe. This page incorporates text from the public domain cookbook The Cook’s Decameron: A Study In Taste, Containing Over Two Hundred Recipes For Italian Dishes by Emily Waters. Ingredients ¼ pound (115 g)…
Ingredients 200 g butter 200 ml double cream 6–8 egg yolks Black pepper Ground nutmeg Procedure Melt the butter—it should not get brown, just melted. Add the cream and the egg yolks. Add the pepper and the nutmeg. Heat up…
Hollandaise sauce is a warm emulsion of clarified butter and lemon juice using egg yolk to bind them. This recipe is not exactly Hollandaise but tastes exactly the same and almost never fails. This recipe also does not require a…
Mató de pedralbes is a Spanish custard dessert. Ingredients 1 litre milk ¼ kilo white sugar 100 grams maize flour 10 yolks 2 cinnamon sticks Procedure Stir the maize flour into a glass of the cold milk. Put the rest…
Ingredients 8 egg yolks ½ cup extra-virgin olive oil, divided 2 tbsp freshly-squeezed lemon juice 1 tsp cayenne pepper ¾ tsp salt ¾ tsp white pepper 2 tsp finely-grated lemon zest Procedure Whisk together all ingredients except for oil in…
Kroppkakor is a traditional Swedish dish of potato dumplings with a pork or bacon filling. They are cooked and served with butter and lingonberry jam. There are some regional variations to the recipe. Ingredients 1 kg cooked potatoes, mashed 2…
This page incorporates text from the public domain cookbook The Cook’s Decameron: A Study In Taste, Containing Over Two Hundred Recipes For Italian Dishes by Emily Waters. Ingredients 1 pound dried white beans (haricot or flagelot, not lima or butter…