
Pecan pie, in coffee cups
The recipe as Mavis says it, and as Yvette measured it.
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The recipe as Mavis says it, and as Yvette measured it.

A short story about patience and a very slow Sunday.

What fifty years of one oven teaches you.


Eight strips, over and under, and why the dough is chilled twice.

Three cups of flour, one of buttermilk and a hand that knows when to stop.

Thibodeaux Table · a free letter on Sundays
A short letter from Mavis and Yvette Thibodeaux, a mother and daughter baking in Lafayette, Louisiana: one recipe, the story behind it and a photograph from the kitchen.