GaietyGirl's Reviews
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Feast: Food to Celebrate Life
By Nigella Lawson
Knopf Canada - 2004
Bread sauce : page 34
This is absolutely delicious and to make it even better, it can be put together in advance and refrigerated. Heats up perfectly the next day.
Even my bread sauce skeptical family became converts after trying it!
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Chocolate malteaser cake : page 283
This is a little more fiddly than the average cake, as it involves heating butter and milk together to whisk into the eggs. (Make sure you don't get it too hot, or you'll have very sweet scrambled eggs!)
The end result is totally worth it though. This is probably the most requested cake that I make. Though delicious, it has quite a dry crumb so if you're holding it over for a second day, I'd recommend adding a tablespoon of ground almonds to the flour.
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Lemon meringue cake : page 170
While this involves making meringue, it's much less nervewracking than pavlova.
Turns out really well and looks impressive for dessert or tea or anytime, really. If you can get homemade or farmers market lemon curd it tends to be a little sharper in taste than most commercial brands, which is a good counter to the very sweet layers of meringue.
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Old-fashioned chocolate cake : page 269
This is just fantastic. My mother could eat nothing else for the rest of her life. Moist, rich and delicious. I agree that the chocolate is very important - it really needs to be good quality dark stuff. Partly because the taste is so pronounced in the final product (it's not cake with chocolate on it, it's chocolate that's got a little cake in it), and partly because it's so much easier to work with higher end chocolate when you have to melt it for icing as there is a smaller chance that it will seize.
Again this is really a cake that should be eaten on the day it's baked, but I can't see that being a problem!
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Perfect roast potatoes : page 26
Sometimes you just have to ignore the large amounts of fat involved and go for it. You'll be thankful that you did - these are amazingly good. Perfectly crisp on the outside, fluffy and soft in the middle.
Yum.
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