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Proof is in the Pudding

By Philip Basone

From SAVEUR Issue #153

A silky, soul-satisfying mainstay in the pantheon of American desserts, chocolate pudding is as at home in our school lunches as it is at a dinner party. Tough packaged versions abound, nothing beats a homemade bowl of the stuff. Among the best recipes we've tried is from pastry icon Alice Medrich. But as we gathered our ingredients to make her recipe in our kitchen recently, we realized we didn't have the bittersweet chocolate she calls for. So we decided to wing it, using the bar of 1 Hershey's Special Dark we did have. To our surprise, it turned out wonderfully—so wonderfully, in fact, that we later decided to try out other grocery store brands, both dark and bittersweet, in the same recipe. Keep reading »

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