This week’s show starts with a celebration – or is it a Jubilee? – as Stefin explores the connection between Queen Victoria and the delicious dessert Cherries Jubilee. Speaking of cherries, Stefin’s also raving about a recent experience with a new kitchen gadget – the cherry pitter. Andrea gives an update from her August cookbook club celebration of Diana Henry’s beautiful cookbook How to Eat a Peach, and discusses her attempts to recreate (as of yet, unsuccessfully) the Turkish Coffee Ice Cream back at home.
More Diana Henry is on the horizon as the hosts review this week’s recipe, the Apricot, Peach and Blackberry Crumble. Andrea had some difficulty with the lack of specificity in the recipe, but her end result was fabulous. Stefin found the recipe a bit one note, and is considering adding cinnamon or other spices to intensify the flavor of the late summer fruit. If you make this dish at home, Andrea recommends serving it warm from the oven with a scoop of ice cream on top.
Next week’s bake along is the Lots of Love Cherry Hand Pies from Taste of Home. Listeners, if you bake along with us, please post pictures and comments on this recipe in the Facebook Group. (NOTE: Andrea said she was considering using dried sour cherries in this recipe….nope! She meant frozen sour cherries.) Andrea, normally no fan of the unitasker, recommends using a dough press when making hand pies, so you can get uniform circles and the same amount of filling in each mini pie.
This week’s show closes out with Andrea’s recap of a recent trip to Tuscany and tales of her strict “Two gelato per day” goal during the trip. The hosts discuss another delicious dessert discovery, the Bavarese, basically a light and fruit cream mousse, topped with passionfruit curd. It’s sure to be popping up in Andrea’s kitchen soon!
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