Tag: baking
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Fly Away Hummingbird Cake
If you’re a regular reader, you know that our writing has been…inconsistent lately. There are a lot of reasons why — life stuff, job stuff, busy and overwhelmed and uninspired stuff. We are coming upon the fifth anniversary of this project, five years of recipes and playlists and rants and raves and reflections on what…
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What to Cook in the Fall: Zelda’s To-Do List
There’s a chill in the air and a bluster to the wind these days. You can catch hints of autumn on the breeze (even though the thermostat seems to have jumped right over “delightfully crisp” to “the air is assaulting my face why”). It’s the cozy season, the homey season — my favorite of all…
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All The Fixin’s: Sweet Potato Sonker and Milk Dip
This installment of All The Fixin’s comes from Ronni Lundy’s Victuals. We’d never heard of sonker until friend-of-the-blog Jason mentioned it during a discussion of the great cobbler versus pie versus crumble debate. “Sonker?” we asked. “What on earth is a sonker?” Well a sonker, we learned, is a deep-dish, cobbler-like dessert unique to a specific…
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All the Fixin’s: Brown Sugar Cornmeal Pie
Welcome back to All the Fixin’s! We are still waiting for spring to arrive here in New York: There was a brief respite from cold…followed quickly by a nor’easter. Suffice it to say, it’s still quite brisk. No matter! We are of the firm belief that every season is pie season! And there were many…
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Fourth of July Fruit Tart
The Fourth of July is just around the corner, and from Berkeley to Brooklyn folks will be celebrating our nation’s independence the American way: with lots and lots of food. Every cook-out is bound to have some of standards — your burgers, your hot dogs, your potato salad, maybe even an apple pie — but…
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April Round Up
Spring has officially, finally, gloriously sprung here in New York, and we’ve been soaking up all the sunshine and ice cream and cherry blossoms we can get. All this warm weather has lured us up and out of our cozy dens — to the roof, to the theatre, to concerts, to brunch, to Philadelphia, to…
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Eat This, Drink That: Bourbon Ball Cupcakes and Lillies For Fillies
As is customary come April here on Zelda & Scout (and in our lives in general), we have entered full-on Derby mode. Now we’ve already visited the two biggest culinary traditions of Derby (aka juleps and pie) on the blog, but there are still plenty of thematic treats left to share with you! On the…
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Eat This, Drink That: Rosemary Shortbread and Salty Dogs
This month for Eat This, Drink That, we are switching things up! Scout was hankering to make a cocktail, and Zelda was ready to get back to her love of baking, so we decided to pull a blog Freaky Friday and go back to our comfort zones for a post. Scout picked up the shaker,…
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Eat This, Drink That: Angel Food Cake and French 75
Most of Scout’s food-based memories come from one of her grandmothers. So when choosing something to make for this month’s Eat This, Drink That, she looked back on all those memories, running from the car as they pulled up to the old A-frame cabin on the lake and sprinting into the long narrow kitchen to find…
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Eat This, Drink That: Cornbread & Show Thyme
In an attempt to hold each other accountable to separately made resolutions, we have decided to combine two of our year-long goals into a series of posts. Welcome to Eat This, Drink That, in which kitchen-phobic Scout attempts to cook and compulsive baker Zelda takes the bartending reigns, in pursuit of her New Year’s resolution…
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