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apple cake!
Oct. 29th, 2016 08:34 pmIf it's autumn where you live, this is a great seasonal cake. I brought one to a work potluck last week and it was a big hit. It's easy, though a bit time-consuming because of peeling, coring, and chopping the apples, and it freezes fantastically well.
The recipe comes from Susan G. Purdy's Pie in the Sky, a helpful book of baking recipes adjusted for various altitudes. I'm giving the sea level version under the cut, since it's likely to be the most generally useful, but if you'd like to know the adjustments for 3000, 5000, 7000, or 10,000 feet of altitude, just let me know.
( recipe )
In other food news, the supermarket where I shop seems to be experiencing a bounty of very good late-harvest heirloom tomatoes. They're been selling them (organic ones at that) for $1.99 a pound, so I've been eating all the raw-tomato dishes I was craving earlier in the summer. This paradise cannot last--on my most recent shopping trip, most of the tomatoes were obviously under-matured--but I'm enjoying it.
Also, comice pears continue to be amazingly good. I was eating one earlier, while reading, and when I reached out for another wedge only to discover that I had already eaten the entire pear, I made a small but audible cry of disappointment.
I've read that comice pears are excellent with blue cheese, though it's hard to imagine them being better. But I want to give it a try.
The recipe comes from Susan G. Purdy's Pie in the Sky, a helpful book of baking recipes adjusted for various altitudes. I'm giving the sea level version under the cut, since it's likely to be the most generally useful, but if you'd like to know the adjustments for 3000, 5000, 7000, or 10,000 feet of altitude, just let me know.
( recipe )
In other food news, the supermarket where I shop seems to be experiencing a bounty of very good late-harvest heirloom tomatoes. They're been selling them (organic ones at that) for $1.99 a pound, so I've been eating all the raw-tomato dishes I was craving earlier in the summer. This paradise cannot last--on my most recent shopping trip, most of the tomatoes were obviously under-matured--but I'm enjoying it.
Also, comice pears continue to be amazingly good. I was eating one earlier, while reading, and when I reached out for another wedge only to discover that I had already eaten the entire pear, I made a small but audible cry of disappointment.
I've read that comice pears are excellent with blue cheese, though it's hard to imagine them being better. But I want to give it a try.
