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Entries Tagged as 'Pure dessert'

January 3rd, 2008 · 26 Comments · Cakes & Cupcakes

Okay, I promise this will be the last recipe from Alice Medrich’s Pure Dessert for a while. The other books on my shelf are starting to get jealous. But I can’t help sharing with you this simple and gratifying recipe….

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December 11th, 2007 · 20 Comments · Chocolate

This was one of the recipes Alice Medrich demonstrated in her class at Citronelle. In her book Pure Dessert, she described it as the soul of simplicity and was inspired by Claudia Roden in her book Book of Jewish Dessert….

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December 7th, 2007 · 50 Comments · Chocolate, Other Food stuff

It was simply a twist of fate. I wanted to do something special for the “Hungry” Hubby right before Christmas. We always wanted to take a class from Michel Richard ,author of Happy in the Kitchen, at Citronelle. We had…

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October 24th, 2007 · 24 Comments · Baking & Bread

I have always loved ensaymadas as a child. I would watch our baker swirl them into their fluted pans and wait for each batch to emerge, gloriously aromatic, from the oven. Ensaymadas are usually buttered, rolled in sugar and sprinkled…

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September 13th, 2007 · 19 Comments · Pastry

What?! An Alice Medrich recipe that has nary a hint of chocolate in it? Impossible! Hard as it is to believe, the Queen of Chocolate has transformed herself into the Master of Pure Dessert. As the lovely Anita so aptly…

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August 31st, 2007 · 8 Comments · Baking & Bread, More Kitchen Musings, Other Food stuff

I was extremely agitated. My pantry was fast losing real estate and I had more stuff to put in it. For one thing, my package of chestnut flour had just arrived and I had bought buckwheat flour a few days…

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August 26th, 2007 · 32 Comments · Chocolate

Where to start? Alice Medrich’s new book, Pure Dessert is full of delightful and unique sweet temptations. However, none of them seem to be too sugar-sweet in flavor as the premise of her book was to bring out the natural…

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