Bourbon Pear Bread Pudding Recipe For National Pear Month

December is National Pear Month. World Pear Day is December 2nd. So celebrate with this delicious recipe for Bourbon Poached Pear Bread Pudding. Pears poached in Bourbon…cubes of sweet brioche bread…a custard of eggs, milk..and the warm spices of the season: Who can resist? Plus, it’s perfectly seasonal, from the beginning of fall through the…
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The Most Popular Dessert The Year You Were Born

[1] 1944: Shoefly Pie (all photos © TasteOfHome). [2] 1976: Banana Pudding. [3] 1984: Red Velvet Cake.   [4] 1961: Ambrosia.   Thanks to Taste Of Home for this bit of food fun: the popular desserts—and recipes for them—from the year you were born. There’s every year from 1940 to 2000. Think of what you…
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It’s National Chocolate Wafer Day. What’s A Wafer?

  [1] The Central European recipe for thin wafers came to the U.S. in the mid-1700s with émigrés from Moravia (photo © Dewey’s Moravian Cookies). [2] Nabisco sold millions of boxes to home cooks to make various icebox cake recipes. Word on the street was that they were discontinued, but they may be back some…
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