Category: Dessert

30th November 2021

My father’s favourite dessert with pears, ginger and dough

If there is one thing that my father cherishes from the Amsterdam-Jewish ancestry on his mother’s side, then it is this dessert that he often makes himself.
It’s called “Peren & Kuchel” in Dutch/Yiddish and that means ‘pears and cake’ but that does not really describe it well as the ‘cake’ is a ball of dough that slowly cooks in the pear-liquid.

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2nd September 2013

Apricot soup with rosemary

The apricot season is drawing to a close and that is a good reason to try out some recipes before it is too late. At a recent visit to Granville, a great coastal town in Normandy and the Manche department, a restaurant suggested apricot soup with rosemary as dessert. I was intrigued by the combination and conquered by the result. Back home, I wanted to […]

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10th August 2013

Apricot and almond pie

I made several jars of apricot jam last month and was looking for uses. So when I heard a good friend of ours was giving a birthday party dinner, I offered to bring along an apricot pie. Here in France, people like to have a sweet dessert after the cheese course at the end of a dinner, before the coffee and brandy. People here arrive […]