[Sca-cooks] Favorite dessert?

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There are times, Adamantius, when I think you are a man after my own heart. 
That is the way I bake, and when I had a catering business, that was the way I baked.
You want *GOOD*, you come to me. You want cheap, go elsewhere. 
I have never seen the sense in using junk and expecting cuisine.
It is kind of like using cut glass to make jewelry and trying to pass them off as diamonds.

My favorite cake dessert is a dark chocolate cake with a creamy cooked pecan frosting between and on top, with a touch of a special chocolate buttercream on the side. 
My favorite summer dessert is homemade ice cream, Strawberry in May and Peach in July (fruit is fresh, sweet and plentiful) Vanilla is the choice at other times.
There is the fresh Peach Cobbler I make, when I want something baked. 

There is one dessert that I would like to make for my 102 year old Grandfather, if I can find the secret. Egg Custard pie is one of his favorites. I can do cream pies and banana pudding, but that is one that escapes my skills. It comes out too bland and lumpy. It misses that vanillaly creaminess that you find in others' custards....
Help? 

Helen


-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius <adamantius1 at verizon.net>



But that, especially after having lost my Mom last autumn, is the  
dessert ever over the horizon, that I have been craving: for me, it  
would be a two-layer yellow cake made with about eight eggs, in my  
mother's twelve-inches-across by two-inches-deep cake pans that were  
really aluminum beer serving trays, with either chocolate buttercream  
(eggless) or, even better, chocolate cream-cheese frosting, with  
either jam or buttercream in between the layers. Traditionally served  
in a horse-choking wedge that probably weighed two pounds and hung  
slightly over the edges of a small dessert-plate ;-) Some people  
preferred the cake itself to be chocolate, and that was good, too, but  
to me it was gilding the lily.

Adamantius






"Most men worry about their own bellies, and other people's souls,  
when we all ought to worry about our own souls, and other people's  
bellies."
            -- Rabbi Israel Salanter

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