Laurie Colwins Nutmeg Cake Recipes

Laurie Colwin's famous nutmeg cake. The technique is a little different. This is a rich cake top over a cookie base. If you don't know Laurie check this out. http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/--esmith/colwin.html

Provided by Dona England

Categories     Dessert

Time 1h10m

Yield 10 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 10

• Ingredients

Nutrition Facts : Calories 404.5, Fat 14.9, SaturatedFat 7.1, Cholesterol 48.7, Sodium 227.6, Carbohydrate 64.6, Fiber 1.4, Sugar 44, Protein 5.1

The writer Laurie Colwin had an obsession with gingerbread, publishing a few different essays and recipes exploring its charms. In the essay that precedes this moist, cakelike rendition, from her book "Home Cooking," she writes that it is "home food" - not fancy restaurant food, that is, but soothing cold-weather food that is simple to make, ideal for an afternoon spent holed up indoors. The essay is also a paean to Steen's cane syrup, from Louisiana, which comes in cheerful yellow cans. Steen's is easy to find online, if not at your local supermarket, but the recipe does not suffer if you use another brand of light molasses instead. Serve the cake plain with whipped cream, or with fruit and a dollop of crème fraîche, or glazed with lemon icing, as Ms. Colwin often did. (The New York Times)

Provided by The New York Times

Categories     dessert

Time 45m

Yield One 9-inch cake

Number Of Ingredients 12

• Ingredients

This old-school chicken, Sunday-night-supper chicken, even dinner party chicken, is baked for about two hours (yes, you read that correctly: two hours) until its bread crumb-coated skin is crisp - yet the meat miraculously maintains its moisture. The recipe, adapted from the great food writer Laurie Colwin, is so simple to make that her original version was written out in a brief paragraph, casually instructing the home cook to coat the chicken with mustard, garlic, a little thyme, a pinch of cinnamon. We have adapted the recipe to include measurements and more specific direction, but that shouldn't stop you from absorbing her nonchalance and confidence as you make it, the certainty that it will turn out delicious every time. (The New York Times)

Provided by The New York Times

Categories     dinner, easy, weekday, main course

Time 2h15m

Yield 4 to 6 servings

Number Of Ingredients 9

• Ingredients

Nutrition Facts : @context http, Calories 772, UnsaturatedFat 28 grams, Carbohydrate 30 grams, Fat 48 grams, Fiber 4 grams, Protein 54 grams, SaturatedFat 15 grams, Sodium 1059 milligrams, Sugar 3 grams, TransFat 0 grams