Desserts - The Sociology of Food

Lemon Thumbprint Cookies

Maura — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 19:29:02 +0000

Thumbprint cookies are an American take on hallangrottor, Swedish for “raspberry cave.” You can fill these buttery shortbread cookies with anything, but I hope you’ll try lemon curd! Jump to Recipe “Walk towards the sunshine, and the shadows will fall behind you.” – Mary Engelbreit […]

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Banoffee Pie

Maura — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 00:08:34 +0000

Banoffee Pie – banana and toffee and whipped cream on a salted brown butter graham cracker crust – will challenge your assumptions about British desserts. Jump to Recipe “Anyway, I didn’t invent it – it evolved.” – Ian Dowding Mostly, when you hear “British desserts,” […]

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Candy Bar Cake

Maura — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 20:36:21 +0000

Birthday cakes are as ancient as the Romans. They’re a symbol of America’s economic and familial shifts. This one from Southern Living is worth celebrating! Jump to Recipe “All the world is birthday cake. So take a piece, but not too much.” – George Harrison. […]

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Salted Browned Butter Graham Cracker Crust

Maura — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 22:16:16 +0000

From a cracker made to suppress sin, to a crust for the Jazz Age, this American standard is elevated by browned butter and salt – it’s sinful! Jump to Recipe “Please google why graham crackers were invented.” – Twitter and Tik Tok, 2021 The bizarre […]

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Classic Florida Key Lime Pie

Maura — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 18:35:26 +0000

A perfected Florida tradition with debated origins, this version boasts a salted browned butter graham cracker crust with a light whipped cream topping. Jump to Recipe Camilla: You know, Dexter, my whole life I’ve been searching for… Dexter: The meaning of life? Camilla: The perfect […]

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Raspberry Cream Cheese Coffee Cake

Maura — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 21:02:33 +0000

From German and Danish roots of eating a little something sweet alongside their bitter coffee, this recipe is a delicate, elegant evolution of a classic. Jump to Recipe JERRY: Gina, do you know what a Drake’s Coffee Cake is?GINA: Of course, the plane cake with […]

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Standard Pastry Dough (Classic Pie Crust)

Maura — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 18:59:25 +0000

From the 1975 printing of “Betty Crocker’s Cookbook,” this classic pastry recipe uses vegetable shortening to produce a light, flaky backdrop for any pie. Jump to Recipe “Pyes were but indigested lumps of dough’Till time and just expense improv’d them so”– a poem from the […]

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Summertime Blackberry Pie

Maura — Thu, 26 May 2022 19:58:00 +0000

Simple and sweet. Berry pies are quintessentially American and delicious every time. Here’s a straight-forward recipe for my favorite one. Jump to Recipe “If I were to design a coat of arms for our country, a pie would be the main symbol. It would appear […]

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