![]() ![]() *Trim seeds and core from each apple half. *Cut ends off cucumber and slice thin on a mandoline. table salt)Ģ large firm-sweet apples (about 1 lb) unpeeled and cut in half lengthwiseġ sprig fresh tarragon, cut in four pieces ![]() Quick Bread and Butter Apple Pickles from The Apple Lover’s Cookbookġ large seedless (English) cucumber, unpeeledġ T. I have slightly shortened the directions because of space limitations. The red and green skins look very pretty together. She also likes a mandoline for making really thin slices of the apple and cucumber. I’ve read that some super tasters actually run into problems because their senses are so finely attuned that flavors taste stronger to them, so their recipes might be calibrated differently, she said.īelow is her recipe for Quick Bread and Butter Apple Pickles using red skinned firm-sweet apples like Baldwin, Jazz and Melrose. Traverso didn’t think you really needed to be a super-taster to make up a recipe but “I do think you have to have a kind of taste sense-an intuition about flavors that go together-much like a painter has to have a kind of color sense. But all cooks are building on the work of those who came before them.”Īlthough I think my father was a super-taster, able to name all the ingredients in a new dish set before him, I do not have that skill. The International Association of Culinary Professionals has standards that it publishes to guide recipe developers on ethics-when you can fairly call a recipe your own. For something more classic like that, I’ll look around at a lot of recipes and learn what I can from them before putting my own take on it. ![]() I happen to love my pie crust recipe, which I developed over time after trying a lot of different methods. But others are variations on classics, like apple pie. That’s where you get this random idea-I wonder if apples would taste good in sweet pickle?-and head to the kitchen and experiment. When I asked Traverso about how she made up a recipe she said, “Some are pure invention, like the quick bread-and-butter apple pickle. I love cooking and I adhere to the Heath Gourmet Club motto that “a recipe is only a guide” but I have always been fascinated by people who actually make up new dishes on purpose, not only because they ran out of dill or spinach. So everyone was tasting it and politely smiling, but didn’t seem terribly enthused about what I think of as a great dessert. “As luck would have it, I completely left out the salt in the completed dish, which is what I used for samples. She put the dish together in front of her audience and then passed out samples of that dish that she had made a home. A small error or omission and leave readers frustrated with a dish that didn’t work properly.” She shared a story about the time she was doing a cooking demonstration in a store when she made an omission in person. And I edit recipes, which is very detail-oriented and anxiety-provoking work. I develop recipes and test all the recipes that other writers develop. They might be profiles of interesting New Englanders or deep dives into seasonal ingredients. I assign and edit stories and write and report stories myself. Amy TraversoĬurrently she is the senior food and home editor of Yankee Magazine where she is “responsible for all the food, home and gardening content in Yankee. She served as the food editor of Sunset and Boston magazines, and writes for other publications including the Boston Globe and Conde Nast Traveler. Traverso has spent most of her professional life cooking and publishing. ![]() The Apple Lover’s Cookbook has recipes for every course from appetizers to desserts, but she also includes a taste of apple history and genetics before moving on to cooking techniques and equipment with a brisk charm. I did buy her beautiful cookbook and spent the next couple of days admiring the stunning portraits of 59 apple varieties, as well as dishes like Squash and Apple Gratin. I joined the crowd at Traverso’s table tasting her pretty Quick Bread and Butter Apple Pickles that were deliciously fresh and slightly sweet. I gave thanks and celebrated with Amy Traverso, author of the The Apple Lover’s Cookbook, during the Cider Days apple tasting at Clarkdale Fruit Farm. One of the blessings of the season is a good harvest and this year there has been a spectacular apple harvest – indeed a spectacular fruit harvest of almost every kind. ![]()
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