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Almond Marmalade Thumbprint Cookies

Photo: Tristan deBrauwere • Food Styling: Ryan McCarthy Buttery, crumbly, and faintly ­bitter, these salty-sweet shortbread cookies bridge the Spanish-British divide with crunchy Marcona almonds and a proper English marmalade. For an extra hit of puckering orange, top the cookies…

Mrs. Barrenger’s Marmalade

Photo: Murray Hall • Food Styling: Jason Schreiber This recipe is adapted from author Paul Richardson’s grandmother, Hilda Marion Josephine Barrenger. “Her marmalade—not orange marmalade, which sounds like a tautology to my British ears—was a family tradition, passed down from…

The Allure of Pralines Roses, an Eye-Popping Treat From Lyon

Photo: Murray Hall • Food Styling: Ben Weiner In Lyon, color often comes first: pastel-hued Renaissance façades, terra-cotta roofs, and pops of red are almost everywhere you look. In bakery windows and at market stalls, bowls of glossy pink or…

Île Flottante

Photo: Murray Hall • Food Styling: Ben Weiner Sprinkled atop these delicate meringue islands, which are poached in milk and served in a pool of vanilla custard, are praline roses—bright pink candy-coated almonds. The pralines’ color is a bit shocking,…