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  • Make Ultra-Tender Biscuits With Oat Flour

    Make Ultra-Tender Biscuits With Oat Flour

    The quest for tender biscuits always starts out the same — smashing butter, flour, and liquid together — and yet, it can end in all sorts of ways. Besides the occasionally dry, crunchy biscuit, the most frequent sad result is a tough and rubbery biscuit from overworking the dough. Short of becoming a Southern grandma,…


  • Life Is Better With These Cinnamon Corn Cookies

    Life Is Better With These Cinnamon Corn Cookies

    With all the savoury odes-to-corn out in the world, I thought it was time to lengthen the dessert list. Corn has the versatility to be an herby salad, covered in cotija, served next to ribs or as them, but it’s also undeniably sweet. I’m a dessert girl at heart, so grab an extra ear or…


  • How to Make Your Own Oat Flour (and Why You Should)

    How to Make Your Own Oat Flour (and Why You Should)

    Alternative flours aren’t going anywhere, nor should they. As tradition would have it, alternative ingredients are stupid…until they’re the best thing ever. Oat products fall in line with that trend: It’s finishing its hater-stage, and now there are loads of recipes that use oat flour instead of wheat flour. You can buy it in the…


  • How to Make an Easy Roux in the Microwave (and Oven)

    How to Make an Easy Roux in the Microwave (and Oven)

    Every year, I make turkey gumbo with my leftover Thanksgiving bird, and every year I complain about stirring the roux. Roux is not difficult to make. Combine equal amounts of fat and flour, whisk until smooth, then cook, stirring continuously — and I really do mean continuously — until it reaches the colour you desire.