Pain d’Epices- a honey sweet spice cake
Nothing like a little frost on a Sunday morning to bring out the baker in us all. So when Julia Leach, the Kitchen-at-Camont’s fall intern, fell under the Pain d’Epices spell, we turned on the oven and began a day learning about dough, pastry and good smells. Here in Gascony, Pain d’Épice or Spice Bread is thought of as a foreign treat- from the north, another region, a taste of winter. Usually, I buy thick slices of honeyed... Read More
Piggy Newtons part 2- the larder cookie
How a cook’s mind works. Not recipe development, but a ramble through past experience as it teaches the present. That perfect dark gooey figgy filling has been resting a couple days and I have some time between classes and visitors. I am going to figure out how to make those ‘piggy rolls’ that Miles offered me the other day. I’ve had all sorts of ideas on how to make them from baking them like brownies- fig bars, to making... Read More
