Posts tagged 'vanilla extract'
24 July 2017
What's Going On With Vanilla?
Having built a decent line in Fairtrade organic vanilla, we recently have had to stop selling it to trade because of supply issues. At the same time, we’ve been asked by many new customers for vanilla or Fairtrade vanilla. Everyone’s scrabbling aro...
Read more12 February 2012
Homemade Marshmallows
It is not very often that I rip out pages from cookery magazines for use at a later date, so it was a surprise when the other day I found some pages I had ripped from a copy of the magazine, Delicious, from some years back. In it, I had obviously fa...
Read more08 October 2010
Recipe For Rich Apple Cake
The idea for this cake comes from the wonderful cook book "European Peasant Cookery" by Elisabeth Luard; it is her recipe for Apple Cake or Æblekage, which comes from Denmark. "European Peasant Cookery" is one of those great cookbooks that is packed...
Read more15 September 2010
Vanilla - A Beautiful And Sensual Spice
Vanilla comes from the vanilla orchid, called Vanilla planifolia, which is native to Mexico, but is now indigenous in many tropical parts of the world, for example Madagascar and surrounding islands. There is a second vanilla orchid called Vanilla t...
Read more19 August 2010
Axel's Raspberry Cheesecake Recipe
My sister and her family came to visit at the weekend, so I was scrabbling around trying to come up with a summery pudding to create, while the rain was gushing down outside in torrents. I decided that roast chicken with all the trimmings, followed...
Read more07 August 2010
Recipe For Almond Cake
This recipe began with a blog post from David Lebovitz, who wrote that his desert island food would be Almond Cake. So with great anticipation, I tried his recipe several weeks back, but while Sophie and I loved the marzipan-almond luxury and the ol...
Read more30 June 2010
Recipe For Sweet Pastry Per Pierre Hermé
Having been given a great sweet tart pastry recipe by Anthony Stern from Independent Foods, I have recently come across an even better Sweet Tart Dough in Pierre Hermé’s book “Chocolate Desserts”. I must admit to being given the heads up about the w...
Read more02 May 2010
New Organic Vanilla From Tahiti
We've had a delivery of some gorgeous fecund organic vanilla from Tahiti. It's brilliant kit and it's totally different from normal organic vanilla from Madagascar - firstly, it's a different species of vanilla orchid, called Vanilla tahitensis as a...
Read more07 April 2010
Recipe - Sweet Tart Dough or Sweet Pastry
I am not very good at making pastry. Some people say that you need cold hands to make pastry and dough, but I have warm hands as I seem always to be burning away all that food - perhaps I just never sit still or my metabolism runs too fast.
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