pastry
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Your Dinner Needs These No-Knead Rolls
There’s a time and a place for chewy, crusty homemade bread. Bread that requires 12 minutes of constant kneading to make. Bread that’s full of glorious, stretchy gluten. That place is not the dinner table when entertaining. Crusty bread makes a killer day-after-turkey sandwich, but it sure makes a lousy dinner roll. Dinner rolls are…
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The Best Grilled Cheese Bread Is an Inside-Out Croissant
When I was young, I used to fantasize about grocery shopping. Not grocery shopping with my mum, which was rife with rules and restrictions, but grocery shopping as an adult, by myself, for the first time. In this fantasy, I would buy Oreos, Ben & Jerry’s, white bread, American cheese, and giant plastic clamshells of…
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10 Professional Baking Tools I Use at Home
In a professional bakery kitchen, you’ll see plenty of multi-purpose tools in action, and cabinets full of gadgets that are equally believable as scalp massagers or torture devices. Although there’s a time and use for all of those utensils, in my home kitchen I ditch the docking roller for a fork. You do not, however,…
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You Should Add Frangipane to Your Dessert Repertoire
The first time I made frangipane was in culinary school, and I remember thinking “Oh, this should go in everything.” It was so magical in flavour and texture that I immediately appreciated its potential, but expressing my awe was the culinary school equivalent of a teenager saying “You know, this Céline Dion lady is really talented.”…