Trent at the excellent personal finance blog The Simple Dollar shared a link to some wonderful YouTube cooking videos yesterday. I was instantly captivated by "Depression Cooking with Clara." Clara's 93 and shares stories from the Great Depression, along with simple and inexpensive recipes.
Every day, Jeff and I sit at the wooden kitchen table that belonged to my great-grandmother, Alice Margaret Smith Kimball Dillmann. She was born in 1892 and died in the late 1970s. When I was a child, I used to sit at that table and eat her wonderful old-fashioned meals of beef stew and rice pudding (which I absolutely adore even today). As you watch Clara cook, I suspect that you'll also be transported back into the kitchen of a grandma or great-grandma.
Here's the rice pudding that I cook. The recipe is fancier than my great-grandma's (I'm sure she wouldn't have dreamed of adding white chocolate):
2/3 cup sugar
2/3 cup long-grain rice
4 1/4 cups milk
1 tsp vanilla
Mix the above in a saucepan and simmer over low heat until thick, stirring often (this will take almost an hour--don't try to rush it).
2 egg yolks
3 tbsp heavy cream
Mix the yolks and cream in a small bowl with about a half-cup of the thickened rice mixture, then add to saucepan and mix and heat for about a minute.
Add 3 oz white chocolate, along with cardamom and orange peel to taste. It's wonderful warm or chilled.
0 comments:
Post a Comment