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Custard: Where Eggs and Dairy Meet to Make Your Favourite Dessert
The world of sauces can be pretty intimidating. The French, in particular, have elevated sauce making to such an extraordinary extent that the whole idea of making a sauce can seem overwhelming. They have their mother sauces, their daughter sauces and a whole culinary tradition based specifically around sauces. To the French a good sauce Continue reading
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Everything you ever wanted to know about cream (the food not the band)
Today I want to get back to dairy. In particular I want to get back to milks sexy cousin: cream. Cream comes from milk and we already know that milk is an emulsion of fats dispersed in a watery continuous phase. We also know that the fats in milk are packaged into a globule called Continue reading
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Flour and water, how hard can pasta be?
Every home cook has been there. You want to make your own pasta, but how? I know – you think, I have at my disposal the single greatest tool for the dissemination of information in the history of man, the internet. I’ll get on that thing and I’ll be an expert in no time. Several Continue reading
The Science of Food 