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Why buy local when you can buy Irish? Victoria and I stood in the dairy aisle of Hannaford, debating our many selections for the butter that would go into the puff pastry for this week’s dessert: egg tarts.
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Why buy local when you can buy Irish? Victoria and I stood in the dairy aisle of Hannaford, debating our many selections for the butter that would go into the puff pastry for this week’s dessert: egg tarts.
In the history of my Moore triple’s traditional Sunday bake day, the only food we cooked but didn’t eat was our grand, seasonally in-demand, gingerbread house. We woke up at 6 a.m. two days in a row and in the freezing cold, lugged ingredients and tools from Howell to Mac House, holing up in the kitchen to design and bake a meticulous replica of Howell House, our affiliate house.
Sheets of silky phyllo dough stretched so thin they’re transparent are buttered, then layered with a filling of finely chopped pistachios, walnuts and cinnamon. Phyllo dough is unleavened so that after it has baked, it does not rise, and the layers settle into each other like the pages of a closed book.