25 Must-Download Web-Only Recipes from Gourmet.com

by Kat Kinsman, Posted Oct 19th 2009 @ 9:30AM

Savory Duck Fat Doughnuts. Photo: Gourmet.com.

Some of the most notable "Gourmet" recipes never made it to the magazine. Through its 69-year run, the magazine's food editors and test kitchen staff developed hundreds of adventurous, experimental, personal and just plain luscious recipes that for one reason or another escaped the print edition. With Gourmet.com's 2008 launch, multimedia supplements to magazine features, test kitchen video throw-downs, staffers' favorites and perusals of family archives afforded the opportunity to showcase Web-exclusive content, and a chance to serve up these recipes to their more cyber-savvy readers.

Though an Oct. 13 Tweet by the magazine's Executive Editor John Willoughby advised followers to "Go to gourmet.com, copy Web-exclusive recipes that will disappear: strawberry dumpling, banana upside down cake, curried pork noodles, etc.", Slashfood has been told by other Condé Nast insiders that after the magazine's recent, sudden shuttering, the future of Gourmet.com content remains uncertain, save for mag-published recipes that will be migrated to sister site Epicurious.com.

We're not taking any chances. We've clicked our way through 300-plus Web-exclusive recipes from October 2005 to September 2009 to find the 25 you simply must copy, paste and collect before they're (possibly) lost to the ages.

1. Frozen Peanut Butter Pie with Candied Bacon
Recipe by Andrea Albin

2. Potted Stuffed Squab
Recipe by Edna Lewis

3. Confit Gizzard with Honey Mustard
Recipe by Ian Knauer

4. Savory Duck Fat Doughnuts
Recipe by Ian Knauer

Get more recipes -- including Dijon ice cream and zucchini whoopie pies -- after the jump.

5. Thai Pigs' Ear Salad
Recipe by Andrea Albin

6. Savory Dijon Ice Cream with Gravlaks
Recipe by Paul Grimes

7. Mustard Caramel Crunchies with Chocolate Glaze
Recipe by Paul Grimes

8. Short Ribs Braised in Coffee Chile Ancho Sauce
Recipe by Ruth Cousineau

9. Grilled Chicken Heart Brochettes with Herb and Garlic Vinaigrette (Pinchos de Corazones de pollo al Tximitxurri)
Recipe by Alexandra Raij

10. Corn Ice Cream
Recipe by Dan Barber

11. Chorizo Hash Browns
Recipe by Kay Chun

12. Avocado Marshmallows
Recipe by Maggie Ruggiero

13. Yam Biscuits
Recipe by Doc Martin

14. Caul-Wrapped Halibut
Recipe by Maggie Ruggiero

15. Thyme Duck Fat Focaccia
Recipe by Melissa Roberts

16. Peanut Butter and Jelly Tart
Recipe by Paul Grimes

17. Chocolate Chipotle Shortbread
Recipe by Ruth Cousineau

18. Soft Mustard Molasses Cookies
Recipe by Ruth Cousineau

19. Southern-Fried Sweetbreads
Recipe by Melissa Roberts

20. Zucchini Whoopie Pies
Recipe by Gina Marie Miraglia Eriquez

21. Avocado Creme Brulee
Recipe by Ian Knauer

22. Sloe Gin Rickey Henderson
Recipe by James Rosewald

23. Maple Grits Pudding with Pecan Streusel
Recipe by Maggie Ruggiero

24. Black Sesame Seed Peanut Butter Cookies
Recipe by Ian Knauer

25. Boozy Eggplant Jelly Bombolini
Recipe by Kay Chun

Get all Web-exclusive recipes at Gourmet.com.

Kat Kinsman is the senior editor of AOL Food. Follow her on Twitter @kittenwithawhip.

Filed Under: Magazines, Tinfoil Swan
Tags: andrea albin, AndreaAlbin, dan barber, DanBarber, doc willoughby, DocWilloughby, edna lewis, EdnaLewis, gourmet, gourmet magazine, gourmet recipes, GourmetMagazine, GourmetRecipes, Ian Knauer, IanKnauer, john willoughby, JohnWilloughby, paul grimes, PaulGrimes, Ruth Cousineau, ruth reichl, RuthCousineau, RuthReichl, tinfoil swan, web-exclusive

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10-19-2009 @11:47AM Curious said... Is it me or do most of these just sound vile?
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10-19-2009 @2:07PM LinC said... This is an excellent example of why Gourmet magazine's subscriptions fell off as other food-oriented magazines came into the field. These may be the poster's favorite 25, but there are a lot of recipes (and ingredients) on this list that don't appeal to me at all.
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10-19-2009 @3:55PM jemangepdx said... If you go to the Gourmet site and look through the Web-Only recipes this post references, there are a bunch of other more appealing ones (imho). I grabbed -- zucchini & bacon fritters, Thai spiced tomato soup, turkey & apricot meatloaf, thyme & maple cream biscuits, roasted mustard & tarragon chicken, to name a few...
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10-19-2009 @5:15PM Pam said... It most certainly is NOT just you! Until I got to the cookies I thought it was satire.
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10-19-2009 @6:42PM Kat Kinsman said... Apologies if these aren't to your taste, but my point in putting these up was to note that Gourmet even made room for edgier, more experimental dishes. The chefs themselves personally loved these recipes -- Doc Willoughby noted on Twitter that Ian Knauer's duck fat doughnut recipe was the second best recipe he created in his tenure there.

A lot of these were personal recipes from the editors and test kitchen chefs, and I love that they were given a home. The rest of Gourmet's recipe legacy will live on via Epicurious and in Gourmet's cookbooks, but I love having these as evidence of process and their staffers' personal tastes. This is the sort of food you can savor when no one else is looking.

Give a recipe a try and see what you think.
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10-19-2009 @7:32PM Pam said... I still prefer to take the whole list as satire. Blech.
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10-20-2009 @3:50PM Stephen Woodworth said... You people disgust me.
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10-22-2009 @10:10AM linda5508 said... Nice list there, you may also want to take a look at this one http://www.ratatouillerecipe.org . It's got some great ratatouille recipes.
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