to busy bee-

recipe for fig caramel pudding:

2 cups chopped figs
375 ml can evaporated milk
1 tsp custard powder
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup golden syrup

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s.o.t.c. in los angeles

cardamom mushrooms with local lemons

muenster with cumin seeds

or
farmer's cheese from alpine village with cinnamon thyme red onions

sour kumquat preserves &
mascarpone from gioia cheese in el monte

YAYA'S CORN

oranges from the northridge grove

chocolate mouse with o.o. and maldon sea salt

chestnut pate

candy crunchies from papabubble, NYC

SOCIETY OF THE CRUMB (BUM), california edition

february 21, 2009

california kumquat

2 cups freshly-picked kumquats, seeded

2 cups sugar

3 tbsp. pectin

1 tbsp. calcium water

makes two jars

curse of the demon

"sing - the spirits like it:

cherry ripe,

cherry ripe,
ripe, i cry!"

1 1/2 oz vodka
1/2 oz kirschwasser
1/2 oz laird's apple brandy

To be served at seances. Pour vodka, kirschwasser and laird's into a glasses half-filled with ice cubes. Garnish with drunken cherries...and conjure the dead.

menu: mirage

scotch and lemon peel