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.