These qualities are dead-on for Helen Gurley Brown’s recipe for Zabaglione. They also what any girl could be providing she had a little moxie — and a subscription to Cosmopolitan magazine.
The 1969 Helen Gurley Brown’s Single Girl’s Cookbook is also true to her revolutionary world view. Like all else, cooking was a means to an end. Need the living room repainted? One taste of her ”Landlord Stews” guaranteed that the super would arrive on Monday. Girls could keep fit and beautiful with her “You Love Your Health” recipes. Romance is tackled in the five chapters devoted to “Food for the Affair, I – V.”
Her Zabaglione appears in “Foreign Food is Good for You,” the section where the recipes “aren’t quite as simple as opening a can of prepared spaghetti but go! go! go! We have confidence in you!”
So whether on not you are one of the “certain girls who consider themselves sophisticated in every way (they don’t wear any underwear at all and own two ostrich boas)” get out your double boiler and your “Spanish shawl draped like a sarong, a see-through peasant blouse with Gypsy dirndl skirt” and go! go! go!
In honor of her legend and legacy the Spectacularly Delicious recipe makeover for Zabaglione features delicious slices of naked peaches and tiny kisses of meringue.