SIMPLIFYING BREAD PUDDING
The majority of bread pudding recipes call for a
separate whiskey sauce to be poured over the pudding
at the end of baking time. While the sweet wonder of
such a sauce cannot be beat, you may want to try this
handy alternative, which makes your house smell even
cozier during the lengthy baking time of bread
pudding: Mix a half cup of bourbon right into the
bread pudding recipe before baking--along with the
bread, milk, cream, sugar, butter, eggs, and whatever
else you use in your favorite recipe.
THE SALT CELLAR
It's not just wine that needs to be stored in a cellar
in order to be served perfectly. If you are a serious
cook, then you probably use Kosher or sea salt rather
than iodized table salt in the kitchen. These large-
grain salts, of course, will not work in shakers,
because no shaker holes are large enough to allow
their passage. You have to store them in ceramic
bowls, but what kind of ceramic bowls? Take a tip from
French and Italian chefs, who store their salt in
glazed porcelain cellars, with a kind of a hooded
tunnel-like opening that protects the salt from the
elements of the kitchen, like gnats, fruit flies, and
spattering grease or water. You can keep it right next
to the stove, where you will need it most often, and
it will be perfectly safe.
