Poached peach recipes for knickerbocker glory and peach melba | Guest cook

When it comes to pudding, fruit is ripe for whimsical reinvention. Try an ostentatious knickerbocker glory or a so-kitsch-it’s-cool peach melbaLast summer, I read Pomiane, Master of the Unsacrosanct, an essay by Elizabeth David. She praises Docteur de Pomiane for his scientific explanations of cooking principles and also for challenging “the holy rites of the ‘white-vestured officiating priests’ of classical French cookery”. In many ways, de Pomiane could almost be