Cooking From The Hart I must admit I have never been a big fan of nuts in brownies. They’re usually included to provide a crunchy contrast to the brownies fudgy underbelly. But, a really good brownie is nice when it’s fudgy through and through and doesn’t need a contrast besides a glass of cold milk. [...]
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If Life Gives You Lemons … If life gives you lemons … make old fashioned lemon bars from Jim Fobel’s Old Fashioned Baking Book. Jim refers to these bars as a real taste of childhood. Well they weren’t a taste of mine, maybe that would have been different had I grown up across the pond [...]
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The Baking Guru of Israel A few weeks back my fabulous and incredibly generous Israeli friend, Francesca, sent me a copy of Sweet Secrets by Carine Goren. Carine Goren is Israel’s best known pastry chef. According to my friend her book Sweet Secrets and accompanying television show of the same name were massive hits. So [...]
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Deep Purple The other evening I had a huge desire to bake something, no surprises there then, with the lovely punnet of blackcurrants I had sitting in the fruit bowl. Blackcurrants (ribes nigrum) have grown in the British Isles for over five hundred years and this year they have been grown in my garden! Now, [...]
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Hot Cakes It is Salford’s sachertorte, Bury’s brioche, Bolton’s baklava and Chorlton’s croissant. It is the Eccles cake, a deceptively simple Manchester-made confection that ranks with the world’s best baked goods. In 1793 James Birch’s shop on the corner of Vicarage Road in Eccles began selling small, flat, raisin-filled cakes. They sold, quite literally, like [...]
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Bush Tea Beginnings Cake, of course, goes so terribly well with tea and has a universality that straddles the bush/China divide. Mma Ramotswe’s Cookbook (Stuart Brown) With a couple of overripe bananas sitting in my fruit bowl, what could I do but bake banana bread? I was about to trawl through my vast collection of [...]
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Oranges & Lemons “Oranges and lemons” say the Bells of St. Clement’s “You owe me five farthings” say the Bells of St. Martin’s “When will you pay me?” say the Bells of Old Bailey “When I grow rich” say the Bells of Shoreditch “When will that be?” say the Bells of Stepney “I do not [...]
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Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands – and then eat just one of the pieces. (Judith Viorst) Nigella Lawson’s now somewhat famous Quadruple Chocolate Cake is one of my all time favourites, both for the baking and the eating of it. Baking wise, it couldn’t [...]
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After taking a couple of months break from the Daring Bakers (due to work commitments & having a domain change) I am glad to say I’m back in the group of participants; and what a lovely challenge I returned too. The January 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Lauren of Celiac Teen. Lauren chose Gluten-Free [...]
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Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well by Pellegrino Artusi is a classic Italian cookbook that is written with passion, humility, irreverence and humour. It was a great milestone in Italian cookery books, being the first one to combine a collection of the fundamental recipes from all the regions of Italy. Until [...]
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Normally by December 1st I’m brimming with the spirit of Christmas but somehow this year I haven’t had the excitement and joy of years gone by; why I do not know. One Christmas activity though is guaranteed to get me in the festive mood, and all the better if Christmas music is playing softly in the [...]
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