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A cream puff stuffed with crème pâtissière, pastry cream. Photo by Stu Spivak | Wikimedia. When we published an earlier tip for a brambleberry tart, we went to link to a recipe for crème pâtissière—pastry cream—and discovered we hadn’t published one. Zut alors! So here we remedy the situation, and also explain some of…
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As American as blueberry and cherry pie. Photo courtesy Centerville Pie Company. If you’re planning for July 4th festivities, here’s a fun food idea from Centerville Pie Company of Centerville, Massachusetts: an American flag pie. Prepare your favorite blueberry and/or cherry pie recipe. The Centerville Pie bakers fill the pie crust 3/4 with cherry…
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June 7th is National Donut Day. The holiday was created in 1938 by the Salvation Army, to honor the women who served donuts to servicemen in World War I (at that time, it was called the Great War). From its first appearance in 17th-century English, the word evolved from dough-nut to doughnut to donut (see…
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The bride and groom are cream puffs. Photo courtesy Dominique Ansel Bakery. Don’t want a wedding cake or cupcake tree? Check out these religieuses (ray-lee-ZHOOZE), from French pastry chef Dominique Ansel, who currently provides New Yorkers with dazzling desserts. A religieuse is a pastry made from two cream puffs, one larger, one smaller, joined…
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The fun way to serve fruit and cookies. Photo courtesy Betty Crocker. Cookies and fruit are an easy dessert; but with a little extra effort, you can create a memorable cookie and fruit pizza. This recipe from Betty Crocker has a prep time of 20 minutes and a total cook time of 1 hour,…
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