From David Lebovitz, the sauce that goes with Pumpkin Cheesecake. It also goes with a lot of other things and is pretty good eaten straight from a jar. 3/4 cup packed light or dark brown sugar1/2 cup heavy cream6 tablespoons unsalted butter1/4 cup maple syrup1/2 teaspoon … [Read more...]
Grandma Miggie’s Chocolate Sauce
I am not sure where my mother got this recipe, but homemade chocolate sauce was often available in her kitchen. The chocolate sauce was always poured over vanilla ice cream. Is there anything more delectable than melting vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce? Sometimes I … [Read more...]
Chocolate Custard
Adapted from the English Custard recipe in Craig Claiborne’s Kitchen Primer (1969). This was the book that really taught me how to cook and I recommend it highly. Chocolate custard was one of the major treats of my childhood. My grandmother Ligia Botts … [Read more...]
Lemon Cream
David Lebovitz's ethereal lemon cream is a wonderful topping for ginger cake or gingerbread, whether you bake David Lebovitz's Fresh Ginger Cake or Claudia Fleming's Stout Ginger Cake or old-fashioned Gingerbread. First you make a lemon curd, … [Read more...]