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Peach Kuchen

I saved this from a Gourmet magazine from long, long ago. I still have the original clipping, torn, yellowed and dotted with…butter? I added more peaches and sometimes use all brown sugar. The browned butter is the key as are fresh, firm and sweet peaches. I prefer Michigan or Colorado peaches, but I hear thatContinue reading “Peach Kuchen”

Black Bottom Pie

This was one of my mother’s favorite pies and, I have to agree, it is delicious. I have adapted slightly from Maida Heatter, who based her recipe on one from Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Yearling. How’s that for name dropping?! Once you taste it, there is no reason to careContinue reading “Black Bottom Pie”