Baking Chefs

Ingredients & Directions -CRUST- 6 tb Unsalted butter; softened 1 pk (3-ounce) cream cheese; -softened 1 c Stone-ground red cornmeal*; -divided 1 c Flour 1/2 ts Salt 1/4 ts Cumin 1/8 ts Cayenne 2 tb Water; (up to 3) FILLING 6 lg Eggs 1 1/2 c Heavy cream 1/4 ts Cayenne 1 pn Freshly grated […]

Ingredients & Directions Text Only This recipe is based on one from the Piedmont region of Italy. It is a traditional Italian marriage of basil with tomatoes. The eminent food writer Jane Grigson had a fine contempt for too much concern about cholesterol, so Raw Materials has substituted olive oil and less of it for […]

Ingredients & Directions 1/2 c Butter 1 t lemon juice 1 ts Lemon juice 4 oz Cream cheese 1 c Unbleached flour 1 tb Pure maple syrup Jam or preserves Melt butter. Blend in cream cheese, maple syrup and lemon juice. Add flour and combine until dough is smooth. Chill overnight. Roll dough to 1/4-inch […]

Ingredients & Directions 2 Egg Yolks 1 tb Dijon Mustard 1/2 c Olive Oil 1/2 c Peanut Oil 1 Lemon, juice only Salt and Fresh Black Pepper 1 Dill Pickle, finely chopped 1 Jalapeno Pepper, seeded & -finely chopped In the work bowl of a food processor or blender, combine the egg yolks and mustard […]

Ingredients & Directions 1 Golden delicious apple 1 Frozen puff pastry sheet -(from one 17 1/4-ounce -package frozen puff pastry -sheets), thawed 2 tb Unsalted butter 1/4 c Packed light brown sugar 2 tb Water GARNISH Vanilla ice cream Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Peel apple, halve lengthwise, and core. Using a 1-cup ramekin (3 […]

Ingredients & Directions -DON SIMMONDS (VJHS00B) STARTER 1 pk Dry yeast, 1/2 c Sugar 2 c Warm water, 2 tb Salt 1/2 c Instant potato flakes –FEED– 3/4 c Sugar, 1 c Warm water, 1 ts Instant potato flakes -BREAD- 1 c Starter, 1 1/2 c Lukewarm water 1 ts Salt, 1/4 c Sugar 1/2 […]

Ingredients & Directions 1 (10-ounce) package frozen ch Spinach; thawed and drained 1 Egg; beaten 1 c Crumbled feta or grated Romano cheese 1/4 c Butter or margarine; melted 2 tb Chopped onion 1/4 ts Salt 1/8 ts Pepper Cream cheese patty shells 2 tb Grated romano cheese Diced pimiento (optional) Cream cheese patty shells […]

Ingredients & Directions Short pastry – rolled out – to about 1/8-in thickness 12 tb Granulated sugar 2 tb Granulated sugar -to sprinkle on – rolled pastry Apricot jam; warmed Fresh fruit -such as -Golden Delicious apples, – Pears and so forth Butter 1/2 Lemon, juice only PREHEAT OVEN TO 425F. Roll out the pastry […]

Ingredients & Directions 3 Store-bought pie crusts; -(packaged flat and folded) -to make 12 individual -pastry tart shells in -ramekins 2 c Heavy cream 1 c Sugar 1 Vanilla bean; split in half 4 Egg yolks 12 sm Coconut macaroons 1 c Sweetened whipped cream Fresh mint sprigs Powdered sugar; in a shaker Preheat oven […]

Ingredients & Directions -PASTRY- 1 1/2 c Flour, all purpose 1/2 ts -Salt 1/2 c Butter; cold, cut in 1/2″ -pieces 1/4 c -Cold water up to 1/3 cup FILLING 1 1/2 c Applesauce;homemade or store -bought 5 Apples; firm, peeled,cored & -sliced as thinly as -possible 1/4 c Butter; melted 2 tb Sugar 1/2 […]