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Plum (or Prune) Clafouti


Part pudding and part pancake, clafouti is traditionally made with cherries, but it easily adapts to almost any fruit. The clafouti will emerge from the oven puffed and brown, but will collapse like a soufflé as it cools. In the winter, you can make clafouti with dried plums (prunes) using the variation below. Serve warm, […]

Potato and Comté Galette


To preserve the natural starch in the potatoes, do not soak them in water. To prevent darkening, use the potatoes immediately after they’ve been peeled and shredded. The coarse shredding blade attachment of a food processor will make fast work of preparing the potatoes.

Comté Wafers


Shredded Comté quickly bakes into these thin wafers of delicate crispy cheese. Like the Italian cheese wafer, called frico, these wafers can be served as a snack with a glass of wine as a garnish for salad, or as an accompaniment to a steaming bowl of soup.

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