Superb Cheese Fondue

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Ready In:
20mins
Ingredients:
10
Serves:
4
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ingredients

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directions

  • Toss the grated cheese with the flour in a bowl. Set aside.
  • Rub a 2 quart pan with garlic.
  • Over medium to medium-high heat, melt the butter, add chives and saute for 1 minute.
  • Add wine [I have gotten the best results with Fish Eye pinot grigio] and bring just to boiling point - but DO NOT BOIL.
  • Keeping this just below simmering, add the grated cheese slowly by small handfuls.
  • Stir in 1 direction continuously as each handful melts into the liquid.
  • If the mixture should look like it's starting to boil, simply take the pot off the heat for a minute or so.
  • After all the cheese is melted, remove pot from heat.
  • Add salt and pepper and just 3 strokes or so (a dash) of freshly grated nutmeg.
  • Add kirsch and serve immediately with cubed bread.
  • Tips: the chives can be omitted; swiss cheese can be substituted but it is MUCH less tasty - use the best quality cheese that you can find; you can also use any bread that's handy.

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56, an Army brat who has lived in 20 different locations [born in germany, went to kindergarten in japan] including new york city, palo alto CA, maine, georgia, chicago, after growing up in small-town kansas... have some fabulous recipes from well-traveled army people... recently started adding just a splash of bourbon or brandy to real maple syrup - and it really gives french toast or pancakes a special, more sophisticated flavor... a friend jokes that bourbon is my new "secret ingredient" that i'll be adding to everything - it's not true but i'm telling you - you should try it! it's really very good [for adults, anyway] sugarpea's apple pancake recipe is a deadringer for Walker Brothers Pancake House in north shore Chicago - i've searchd for this for 34 years - and it's easy as well as To Die For!!! the Dutch Baby pancake is a huge seller there too - with the same gooey comfort-food but elegant batter... also if you search for lettuce wrap - the 2 recipes for PF Chang's come up... this is also SO GOOD, truly a memorable entree... for cookbooks: With a Jug of Wine, More Recipes With a Jug of Wine were written by the San Francisco Chronicle food writer decades ago - and most everything in them is superb - and i learned a lot as a new cook, young wife, from reading through them in the late 1970s... i got a [very French] sense of food as a way of life
 
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