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Saturday, May 6, 2023

Kentucky's Bourbon Cuisine by Ruth Paget

Kentucky’s Bourbon Cuisine by Ruth Paget 

Kentucky is famous for its Kentucky Derby Horse Race, blue grass music, and lush bourbon-based cuisine. Bourbon is a highly alcoholic drink made from corn that is similar to whisky and cognac. 

Tasting Kentucky: Favorite Recipes from the Blue Grass State by Maggie Green provides 20 recipes out of its 100 that use bourbon to flavor dishes from breakfast to dessert. 

Green begins with a breakfast recipe for buttermilk pancakes made with bourbon-vanilla butter that soaks into the pancakes on the grill for a bracing morning meal. 

For cocktail hour, Green suggests a bourbon-candied ginger onion dip to go with cocktails like bourbon slush, garden old fashioned, mint juleps, and village Manhattans. 

Mashed potatoes with bourbon seem improbable, yet there is a recipe for them in Green’s cookbook along with salad with oranges and slices of red onion with bourbon-sorghum vinaigrette. 

Bourbon shines in main dish offerings such as: 

-bourbon trail chili 

-beef short ribs with bourbon barrel ale (not bourbon, but ale made with a product of bourbon making) 

-pork chops Bourbonnais 

-smoked pork shoulder with chili rub and bourbon-peppercorn barbecue sauce 

Bars are often noted for their dessert offerings that make use of spirits. Any of the following bourbon-based desserts might find takers on a daily specials menu: 

-bourbon ball layer cake 

-bourbon pecan pie 

-bread pudding with bourbon sauce 

-chocolate – bourbon – almond stuffed figs 

-chocolate tart with bourbon praline topping -marbled bourbon pound cake 

The recipes in Tasty Kentucky: Favorite Recipes from the Bluegrass State by Maggie Green are rather short and have photos of finished products making the cookbook user-friendly and a splendid addition to a kitchen library. 

By Ruth Paget, author Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France


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