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Valentine’s Day is coming
Valentine’s is coming – and not the massacre. I only tolerate valentines, because it is mostly about chocolate. If only we could just call it that. Anyway, order by February 8th to get chocolates in time.
Southern Biscuits (My Granny’s recipe)
January 21, 2013
Technically speaking, this is not a sweet recipe, but it is very good with honey-butter on it, or with a bit of sugar, and some strawberries. This makes about 14 biscuits 1.0 Biscuits Ingredients: 250 grams _________________ Flour (all purpose, ~2 Cups) 1-2 TBSP ____________________ Baking Powder (BP, she never measured) 1⁄4 tsp _________________ Baking […]
Gâteau Saint Honoré – Saint Honoré Cake
January 15, 2013
Gâteau Saint Honoré is a traditional French/European dessert. Saint Honoré is the patron saint of bakers. A quick note, about the scale of the one I made – it looks like a croquembouche because it needed to feed ~10-12 people. Normally these seem to be smaller (2-4 people) – but making more of them. This would make a […]
Calibrating a Scale
January 13, 2013
Recently, I made a semi-impulse purchase from the modernistpantry. Among the various chemicals – which will go into various chocolates that you can’t have the recipe for (sorry) – I bought a scale that measures down to 0.01g. I promise not to make recipes that specific for this blog. Hopefully this scale will be useful […]
Cream Puffs – pâte à choux (pate a choux)
January 11, 2013
Another classic, basic pastry, pâte à choux, can be used to make all sorts of awesome things fairly quickly. From cream puffs, to eclairs, to savory gougères, it’s a good trick to have up your sleeve. The Alton Brown episode where he makes pate a choux is awesome, by the way, like most things he does. 1.0 pâte à choux Ingredients: 1 1⁄2 […]
Puff Pastry
January 10, 2013
Also known as pâte feuilletée. There are many recipes for “quick” puff pastry, with a food processor – but this one turns out nicer. It is based on an old post from my favorite food blog (she’s since moved and is now ) You make two doughs, and then role them together. The first is the […]
sam makes sweets 
January 27, 2013
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