Recipes Inspired by Your Favorite Books
When fresh peaches aren’t in season, make like Sherlock Holmes in The Hound of the Baskervilles and enjoy them in cans! This peach and custard pie is a decadent dairy-free, gluten-free dessert the whole family will love.
This warming mocktail mixes Sherlock Holmes’s favorite tea (Lapsang Souchong) with cinnamon, honey, and citrus to create a non-alcoholic nightcap. Brightening orange juice and zest recall one of Conan Doyle’s favorite Sherlock stories, “The Adventure of the Five Orange Pips.”
These gluten-free red velvet scones are inspired by “A Study in Scarlet.” They’re rich and chocolatey and are topped with a homemade dairy-free “clotted cream” flecked with vanilla bean paste.
This hearty brunch spread takes its cue from Jack London’s The Call of the Wild and the Klondike Gold Rush. Décor foraged from the woods adorns the rustic faux-wooden table, and the tableware features a “rustic leaves” pattern. We dined in the open air, taking in the “subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest.”
You’ll want to serve these grain-free bagel sandwiches at every weekend brunch! They have a chewy texture and great flavor and are topped with store-bought dairy-free cream cheese and smoked salmon, making prep a breeze.
This smoothie tastes like liquid sunshine and is packed with nutrients. It gets some of its sweetness from the slow-burning carbs in yellow beets, and is inspired by the color prospectors sought so intensely during the Klondike Gold Rush.
This paleo sweet potato hash is hearty, wholesome, and nightshade free. The dish makes good use of ingredients miners brought to the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush, and is topped with a cherry “ketchup” that recalls how prospectors adapted local ingredients to make their favorite foods from home.
This grain-free strawberry and peach cobbler is inspired by Jack London’s The Call of the Wild, which takes place during the Klondike Gold Rush. Miners didn’t have many dessert options, but they became experts at making the baking powder biscuits that cover cobbler’s bubbly fruit filling. It requires less than 15 minutes of hands-on time yet looks and tastes impressive.
Our Anne of Green Gables Garden Party is a happy compromise between Anne’s “golden picnic” in the woods and a more formal Afternoon Tea.
This moist vanilla cake with strawberry jam and coconut whipped cream is a gluten-free, dairy-free version of the Victoria Sandwich cake popularized in Britain. Lavender syrup adds a floral note that recalls the famous cake mistake in Anne of Green Gables.