Cranberry Nut Crunch
From pieplate 15 years ago
- 50 minutes to make
- Serves 8
I adapted this from The Bel Canto Cookbook, a compilation of the favorite recipes of opera singers. This one is a favorite of the astonishing tenor James McCracken. His wife, Sandra, also a singer, created this for him.
Ingredients
- 2 c cranberries, picked over shopping list
- 1/3 c broken nutmeats--break them by hand, they taste better--I use pecans, but walnuts should be good too shopping list
- 1/3 c light brown sugar shopping list
- 2/3 c white sugar shopping list
- 1/3 c melted butter, plus another T or so to grease the pan generously shopping list
- 1 egg shopping list
- 1/2c less 1 T flour shopping list
- generous pinch of salt shopping list
- 1c ground nuts--whatever kind you are using above. shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- Grease a 9-inch pie pan (a pie plate, you might say) generously.
- In a mixer with a stand, mix the egg and white sugar until the mixture begins to turn pale.
- Add the melted butter, mix until very well blended, then add the flour.
- Mix for 5 (f*i*v*e) minutes at medium speed. A good deal of the charm of this dish is the meringue-like surface, so you must let a good deal of air be beaten in.
- While this is going on, scatter the cranberries in the pie pan.
- Sprinkle with the nuts, then with the brown sugar.
- When the batter has served its five (5)minutes, stir in the ground nuts.
- Place dollops of batter on the cranberries and gently spread the batter so that it almost reaches the sides. It's OK if it does reach the sides.
- Bake at least 50 m, or whatever it takes for the crust to become dark golden brown, as dark as caramel or cafe au lait.
- Cut into wedges and serve with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream, or as is.
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This sounds quite yummy-I can just picture it!
dollhead
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Love this one! Will be trying it soon!
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This sounds allot like one of my favorite German desserts, Johannisberrin Tort (spelled wrong I'm sure), love this kind of food! yummmmm got my 5
and I will be making it soon!
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