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On Daring Bakers and Stollen

The 2010 December Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Penny of Sweet Sadie’s Baking. She chose to challenge Daring Bakers’ to make Stollen. She adapted a friend’s family recipe and combined it with information from friends, techniques from Peter Reinhart’s book………and Martha Stewart’s demonstration.

My first experience with stollen, told in the style of Bridget [...]

On Two Kinds of Christmas Cookies

We all make mistakes in the kitchen, or at least I like to think we do. I certainly do. I’m not talking about deliberately making a change to a recipe or doing some random experimenting. I’m talking about misreading an amount or an ingredient in a recipe, or over/undercooking something, or trying to do too [...]

On Festive Baking and a Recipe Exchange

I remember when I was a kid my mum would spend hours upon hour baking, and then freeze what seemed like hundreds of plastic containers full of Christmas treats. Perfect little squares and Christmassy shapes and tarts and pies. I also remember her taping these containers shut with long strips of masking tape to dissuade curious kids and husband from [...]

On Daring Bakers and Christmas Crostata

The 2010 November Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Simona of briciole. She chose to challenge Daring Bakers to make pasta frolla for a crostata. She used her own experience as a source, as well as information from Pellegrino Artusi’s Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well.

Pasta frolla the Italian name [...]

On a Panettone Obsession

“You should try making this stuff.”

That one sentence – 6 simple words – set me off on my latest food obsession. It serves me right, I suppose. I was off in London at having a fabulous afternoon of food and photography (written up beautifully here by Jeanne, AKA Cooksister), leaving the man and the [...]