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Brownies
March 2, 2013
This is my mom’s recipe, which I’ve tweaked, which she tweaked from the old bakers’ chocolate recipe on the box. She used to make it in one bowl – but I prefer to dirty every dish I can. I like these because they taste like brownie mix brownies, but aren’t. (Weird right? We all have […]
Valentine’s Day is coming
January 27, 2013
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 […]
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 […]
Assembling a Piping Bag
December 29, 2012
At some point recently – it was brought to my attention that people aren’t born with the innate ability to assemble pastry bags. I don’t remember ever being taught this – though I’ve been decorating cakes since like pre-school – so it’s a bit unfair of me to assume people know how to do this. […]
Grapefruit Agar Jelly Slices – Sneak Preview
September 28, 2012
This recipe isn’t done yet – it still needs some work. I’ve been meaning to make fruit slices for a while – and I’ve had the mold for this for a long time, but haven’t made it, until now. This is a 4 part recipe – which I’ll post in a few days. Here are […]
Hello world!
September 27, 2012
Despite my early adopter status as a whiny teenager with a website in the ’90s, I’ve put off making a food blog for a very long time. Partially because there are already so many (and a lot of them I really like), partly because I’m not a fan or writing, and partly because I want […]
sam makes sweets 
April 4, 2014
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