4 modern day Recipes

fish part, white, mild fish fillets/chunks ( use 1 part or combinations: whitefish, tilapia, sole, haddock, cod etc. ), firm fish fillets/chunks ( use 1 part of either: red snapper, tuna, sea bass , monkfish etc. yes even salmon ), all should be free of any bones, skin etc., eggs fork beaten, very large onion, coarse salt and pepper to taste, matzoh meal to bind ( 1/2 to 1 cup or as needed), found at the jewish/ethnic foods section, sugar: 1 tsp but optional, stock part, several large carrots cut up, celery with leaves okay, onion cut up, garlic cloves, few bay leaves, lemon quartered, whole mixed pepper corns, fish heads , fish bones etc., kosher or coarse salt, sugar ( optional )3 to 5 tsp for the stock

pecan pies of today bare little resemblance to their 19th-century inspiration. could we recreate a traditional pecan pie without using modern day, processed corn syrup here s what we discovered, test kitchen discoveries, many traditional syrups (cane, sorghum) produced a great pie, but we had to mail away for them. in the end, combining maple syrup with brown sugar and molasses replicated the old-fashioned versions perfectly., start the pie at 450 degrees and then drop down the temperature to 325 degrees to ensure the bottom crust is crisp and golden brown., if you don tsp let your pie completely cool , the filling won tsp firm to the proper consistency and the pie won tsp slice nicely., a last-minute addition of cream yielded a welcome custardy transformation to the filling. this also made the filling looser; a problem easily solved by adding extra egg yolks., toasting the nuts before they went into the pie gave them enough crunch and flavor to hold their own in the filling., move over , karo, before cloying karo syrup monopolized the market , pies were made with many other, less processed types of syrup, including sorghum (made from a cereal grass) and cane (made from the boiled-down juice of the sugarcane plant). these syrups still exist, and you can mail-serving them, but otherwise you ll probably need to travel to places like louisiana or kentucky to find them. we tasted a range of such syrups, including steen s 100% pure cane syrup and townsend s sweet sorghum, then tried to duplicate their complex flavors from products we could buy at the supermarket. in the end, a combination of three ordinary sweeteners created an old-fashioned flavor that easily bested karo.

uncooked elbow macaroni, butter-flavored cooking spray, whole wheat bread (not dense), all-purpose flour, salt, nonfat milk, shredded light cheddar cheese, light shredded swiss cheese, light butter, reduced-fat parmesan cheese