Peach Puzzle
America's Test Kitchen Recipe by Lois Schlademan, Stow, Ohio
This recipe (which won the grand prize in the
Cook's Country lost recipe contest) has all the abracadabra of a magic trick
as well as beautiful presentation and great taste.
Lois says the name
refers to the "puzzling"cooking method. Her recipe begins by placing a
custard cup upside down in the center of a pie plate.
Seven peaches (peeled
but still whole) are arranged around the cup and then drizzled with a
mixture of brown sugar, butter, and vanilla.
A buttery biscuit dough is
then domed over the peaches and the custard cup.
As the peaches bake under the
crust, a vacuum forms inside the custard cup and the juices in the pie
plate are pulled up inside the cup.
Once cooled, the pie plate is flipped over
to reveal the peaches nestled into the flaky biscuit. So where's the
butterscotch-like syrup? It's all in the cup!
As you might imagine, Lois's recipe is unique-in
our research, we failed to come across a single recipe like it. Lois says that
her mother made peach puzzle back in the 1940s or 1950s and that it has
been a family favorite ever since.
How good does this recipe taste? Lois' description
answers that question better than we could: "When you pour a
spoonful of syrup over the warm peach and it soaks into the biscuit crust, you will think
you've died and gone to heaven-where, when meeting my mom, she would be
pleased that it was her recipe that made you come visit!"
Serves 7
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