Cicero: Easy chocolate fondue has hints of orange
Here's an easy and yet elegant and romantic dessert recipe that I found in a fascinating book, "The Essence of Chocolate" by chocolate makers John Scharffenberger and Robert Steinberg (Hyperion, 2006).
Silky, sensuous Chocolate Orange Fondue embodies the authors' passion for high-quality, cacao-rich chocolate. With only four ingredients and less than 5 minutes prep time, you'll have a memorable sweet.
1/2 cup heavy cream
3 strips orange peel
7 ounces (41 percent-cacao) milk chocolate, finely chopped
1 tablespoon Grand Marnier or other orange liqueur (optional)
Bring the cream and orange peel to a boil over medium-high heat in a small skillet.
Remove from heat, cover and let stand 30 minutes to infuse the cream-orange flavor. Discard the orange peel.
Place the milk chocolate in a medium bowl. Reheat the cream until simmering, pour over the chocolate and let stand 30 seconds, then whisk gently until the mixture is smooth. Whisk in Grand Marnier.
Serve warm surrounded by dipping ingredients such as berries, cherries, figs or other fruit; marshmallows or miniature cookies. Makes about 1 cup, 4 servings.
Two readers responded to a request from Ada, who had lost a recipe for Burdine's biscuits with bacon.
The recipes were so different I had to try them both.
C. found a recipe "in one of my old Burdine's cookbooks" for cornmeal-bacon biscuits with unexpected ingredient: mayonnaise.
Elisa Amster Ross of Aventura, Fla., wrote that she was "gifted a number of years ago with a handwritten cookbook titled "Burdines Cookpages" by Penny Brown. It contained no bacon-biscuit recipe, but Ross shared one for a cheese bread attributed to Margo Hansen of Boca Raton, Fla.
The easy bread was a great complement to a simple soup dinner. You might want to brush the finished loaf with garlic butter.
2 strips bacon
2 cups corn meal
1 teaspoon salt (or less)
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 cups buttermilk
2 eggs
3 to 4 tablespoons mayonnaise
Heat oven to 450 degrees. Cut 2 strips bacon into small pieces and place in an iron skillet in the hot oven to brown.
Meanwhile, mix remaining ingredients into a
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