Toasted Rice Powder adds a wonderful nutty flavour and aroma to any dish you add it to, and is an essential ingredient in South East Asia. It’s a very quick and easy process and because the toasted rice loses its potency fairly quickly, it’s best done as and when needed. I usually make a tablespoon or two […]
How to make Perfect Caramelised Onions
You can watch my video tutorial on this at How to make Perfect Caramelised Onions. Caramelised Onions – soft, syrupy, sweet and almost nutty with so many possibilities! In sandwiches, on salads, tarts, pizza, canapé topping, the list is as lengthy as your imagination. While cooks may differ slightly in their approach, the general rule […]
Icing and Filling Cakes with Buttercream
Please visit the Cake Decorating Page for all things Cake and recipes as well as step by step cake links. You can also find other types of buttercream ideas for filling Madeira Cakes on the Buttercream Icing page. Icing and Filling Cakes with Buttercream is a very straightforward process. You can buy these cake cutters […]
Pâte Sucrée (Sweet Shortcrust Pastry)
Pâte Sucrèe means Sweet Dough in French and is a light, crumbly, sweet shortcrust pastry that we usually associate with fruit tarts. Once it’s baked, it’s sturdy enough to stand on its own, without the tin it was baked in. The use of icing sugar adds to the overall sweetness. The traditional method of making […]
Dowelling Cakes
Stacking cakes or even placing a heavy-ish decoration on a cake, will require support. All this means is that you are going to be inserting some rods called dowels into the lower cakes to take the weight of the top cake, just as in construction! All but the top layer will need dowelling. It’s not […]
Sterilizing
All containers should be sterilized before being filled with food that’s meant to store anything moist. I’m quite happy to use one straight out of the dishwasher, something I’ve been doing for years with no problems. However, you can “properly” sterilize your containers by washing them in hot soapy water and rinsing well. Then dry them in […]
