{"id":64,"date":"2009-08-27T16:54:06","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T23:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/08\/27\/boston-cream-torte\/"},"modified":"2011-12-02T17:03:55","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T00:03:55","slug":"boston-cream-torte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/2009\/08\/27\/boston-cream-torte\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Cream Torte"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boston Cream Torte<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Does your family have a tradition to celebrate birthdays?\u00a0 <\/span>My mother would ask us what we\u2019d like for dinner and dessert.\u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019d always ask for a standing rib roast of beef, mashed potatoes, gravy, and blunt cut green beans.\u00a0 <\/span>My dessert was always a Boston Cream Pie that she\u2019d make from scratch, using\u00a0 <\/span>a Joy of Cooking recipe for hot milk cake, my grandma Kit\u2019s recipe for real custard, and a rich, fudge frosting from an unknown source that was to die for.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>I suspect most youngsters don\u2019t realize how much effort parents put into making their children\u2019s wishes come true. It was really a heavy meal in the middle of the July heat and humidity for Mom to cook for me.\u00a0 <\/span>One memorable July, when I thought nothing was going to be done for my birthday, Mom said to go see what was in the downstairs refrigerator.\u00a0 <\/span>I knew it would be a luscious Boston Cream Pie, but the surprise was on her.\u00a0 <\/span>Before the hot cake and custard had time to set, each layer had slid off the plate into a moosh on the rack.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>I have her recipes and used to make my own Boston Cream Pie for my family on my birthday, but I pass up the standing rib roast for a chicken barbecue. Several times, my friend has brought over a\u00a0 <\/span>Boston Cream Pie and sometimes, my husband will buy one, but they just don\u2019t have the same texture, flavor, and specialness of Mom\u2019s Boston Cream Pie\u2026until now.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>My husband brought home a Boston Cream Torte that he\u2019d bought from a well-known, big department\/grocery mega-store.\u00a0 <\/span>At first I thanked him and privately thought:\u00a0 <\/span>right!\u00a0 <\/span>Here we go again, especially when he said the filling was sweet whipped cream.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>I took a tentative bite of the bottom layer of the 3-layer torte.\u00a0 <\/span>It was good.\u00a0 <\/span>I scooped a lick of the filling.\u00a0 <\/span>It was real custard.\u00a0 <\/span>Then, I sampled the chocolate frosting.\u00a0 <\/span>It wasn\u2019t Mom\u2019s fudge, but it was rich, real chocolate.\u00a0 <\/span>The rest of the cake became history.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Oh Dear Gussie.\u00a0 <\/span>I have a new favorite birthday dessert and no-one has to slave over baking it in the hot July weather. (I\u2019m assuming that the commercial kitchen is air-conditioned.).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2009 by Kate Chamberlin<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boston Cream Torte \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Does your family have a tradition to celebrate birthdays?\u00a0 My mother would ask us what we\u2019d like for dinner and dessert.\u00a0 I\u2019d always ask for a standing rib roast of beef, mashed potatoes, gravy, and blunt cut green beans.\u00a0 My dessert was always a Boston Cream Pie that she\u2019d make from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}