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Jan 27, 2022

Spiced Grapefruit and Rum Marmalade

As I mentioned in the Tangerine Marmalade recipe, I want to take advantage of the citrus season to make a bunch of different marmalades....

Dec 28, 2021

Candied and Chocolate Covered Citrus and Ginger

Since first trying to candy and then chocolate cover orange peels last spring, I have branched out to ginger and other citrus fruit...

Dec 24, 2021

Pink Grapefruit Curd

With citrus fruit now in season, one way of preserving them is in a curd - a custard-like jam that keeps in the fridge for about 4 weeks...

Dec 21, 2021

Tempering and Flavouring Chocolate : Attempt 3 - Making bars

The Domestika course I am doing introduces three different architectural textures to replicate in chocolate - terrazzo, marble and...

Oct 1, 2021

Tempering and Flavouring Chocolate, trials 1 & 2

I decided this summer to take an online Domestika course in chocolate flavouring and texturing. During the course I'm supposed to learn...

Jun 8, 2021

Grapefruit and Prune Cookies

This started out as a trialled tweak of the Orange Date Cookies back in the autumn. In a taste test of the two, we liked the Orange Date...

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