FReeper Canteen ~ What is your favorite dessert? ~ August 23 2004

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~ MONDAY FAVORITES ~
This week: What is your favorite dessert?

In our continuing series about your favorites, we ask this week about food. We chose this topic for the most obvious of reasons--we all like eating. Instead of wasting time eating something nutritious, we skip to dessert. After all, that's the most important part of the meal. So? Post your favorite dessert and a picture on the thread. If you can't reach us via Freepmail, email us at canteenusa@canteenusa.com . By the way, you can put more than one favorite dessert. These things can be hard sometimes. We don't want to stress you.

~ Dessert Exhibit A~
~ Cookies ~
Don't see your favorite dessert? Post it on the thread. Also, post the recipe if you'd like. (Click pictures for recipes! If you have a better recipe, please share it with everyone!)


 

Chocolate Chip Cookies

 

DID YOU KNOW?

Ruth Wakefield invented Chocolate Chip Cookies. Ruth Graves Wakefield graduated from the Framingham State Normal School Department of Household Arts in 1924. She worked as a dietitian and lectured on food, until, together with her husband she bought a tourist lodge named the Toll House Inn.

Ruth Wakefield prepared the recipes for the meals served to the guests at the Inn and gained local notoriety for her deserts. One of her favorite recipes was for Butter Drop Do cookies. The recipe called for the use of baker's chocolate and one day Ruth found herself without the needed ingredient. She substituted a semi-sweet chocolate bar cut up into bits. However, unlike the baker's chocolate the chopped up chocolate bar did not melt completely, the small pieces only softened.

As it so happened the chocolate bar had been a gift from Andrew Nestle of the Nestle Chocolate Company. As the Toll House chocolate chip cookie recipe became popular, sales of Nestle's semi-sweet chocolate bar increased. Andrew Nestle and Ruth Wakefield struck a deal. Nestle would print the Toll House Cookie recipe on its packaging and Ruth Wakefield would have a lifetime supply of Nestle chocolate. (Click here to find out more information.)
 

 

Snickerdoodles
 

Peanut Butter Cookies

 

Oatmeal Cookies (Auntie Fawnn's recipe--click the photo!)

~ Dessert Exhibit B~

 

 

Godiva Hot Fudge Brownie Sundaes

 

Cheesecake
 

 

Chocolate Cake

 

~ NOW IT'S YOUR TURN TO SHARE ~
Let's Eat!

[reformed_democrat]

It's amazing that someone like you would have such a broad recipe base.

Careful there, Mr. 33. I just got done feeding my unreformed_republican husband a steak dinner.

And I assembled the grill (well, most of it -- he helped put on the shelves) I cooked it on.

[Fawnn]

Awestruck!!! #50!!!

[YaYa123]

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Something overlooked when explaining why America is the greatest country on earth.

[Kirkwood]

If I'm feeling like a kid, I would like a banana split.

If I'm feeling like an adult, I would like bread pudding from Commander's Palace.

[reformed_democrat]

Jello brand egg custard

Mmmmmmm. I love egg custard.

Is it from a mix, or does it come in one of those little containers?

[Euro-American Scum]

CHOCOLATE!!!!!!!! Preferably dark chocolate.

I hate -- and I mean really hate -- to say it. But the best dark chocolate I ever had was at the Royale Hotel in Deauville, France in June. Absolutely magnificent.

The French probably imported it from Holland.

[trussell]

I am hereby formally requesting the recipe for the fruit pizza!!

[Swede Girl]

I have heard how good Blue Bell ice cream is, but have not had it yet, myself. I am sure it is great with peach cobbler! I will have to look for the ice cream the next time I visit Texas!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Welcome to the Canteen!

[writer33]

Man. Your husband got steak. He must've done something right.

[Bahbah]

Absolutely anything for the Canteen. Let me begin with the brownies. Preheat Oven to 325-350. Warmer oven makes for a more cake like brownie. Experiment.
Beat 4 eggs with 2 Cups sugar until fluffy (yes, boys, fluffy). Melt 1 Cup butter with 4 squares (1 oz each) unsweetened chocolate. Add 2 tsp vanilla. Cool just a bit and add to egg mixture (you don't want to cook the eggs). Sift together 1 Cup flour, 2 tsp salt and add to the mix. Add 3/4 Cup chopped nuts (optional).

Pour into 9x13" greased pan. Bake 25 to 30 minutes. Do not overbake. They should have some give to them.

Baker Bahbah note: 3 TB cocoa plus 1 TB veg oil = 1 square of chocolate and I prefer the result with this, but either way, chocolate lovers will not be disappointed. I actually make chocolate frosting and slather it on.

It is past my bedtime, but I swear I shall return to this thread tomorrow morning and finish my assignment. Nite ya'll.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

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[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

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[BykrBayb]

I love just about every dessert out there. My all-time favorite? Without hesitation, that would be strawberry shortcake. But not just any strawberry shortcake. It would have to be the shortcake my sister made when we were kids growing up on the farm.

She'd send us younger kids out to the garden to pick strawberries. It was hard not to gorge our bellies on fresh picked berries, but we managed, because we knew we wanted to save room.

While we were picking berries, Sis would be making the "shortcake." Okay, it wasn't what most people call shortcake. Actually, it was sweet drop biscuits. She used buttermilk and butter that we'd made from the milk Bessie gave us. Actually, one of my brothers went out every morning with bucket in hand, and took it from her, but she was contented to give it.

We were always quicker with the berry-picking than Sis was with the shortcake-baking. We'd come in with strawberry juice all over our faces, swearing we didn't eat any. She'd put them in a bowl, sprinkle them with sugar, and put them in the fridge. By then we were all seated at the table, staring at her, asking "Are they done yet? How much longer? Are they done yet?"

When she'd finally pull the biscuits out of the oven, she'd split them open, and place them into our soup bowls. Then she'd scoop the cold strawberries over the hot biscuits, and we could finally start in on it. Sometimes she had made whipped cream, but usually not. If there was no whipped cream, we liked to pour milk over it. If you've ever had fresh milk, instead of the mass-produced watery version we all drink today, you know how good it is. As the pitcher was being passed around the table, nobody waited for the milk before starting. Afterall, there were 7 of us kids, plus Mom & step-dad. Your biscuits could get cold waiting. By the time the milk worked its way around the table to the baby (that's me), I'd finished my shortcake. I don't think I ever got milk on my shortcake until a couple of the older kids had grown up and moved out.

I haven't really enjoyed a strawberry shortcake since, except in my dreams. It's just never quite good enough.

[aruanan]

FReeper Canteen ~ What is your favorite dessert? ~ August 23 2004

Any of these:

1. My recipe for pecan pie.
2. My recipe for pineapple upsidedown cake.
3. My recipe for mango/peach crumble.
4. My recipe for cranberry caramel cheesecake.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Welcome to the Canteen!

[Socratic]

Pineapple Upside-down Cake. (With lots of brown sugar).

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

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[reformed_democrat]

He must've done something right.

He did.

He married me.