All Entries Tagged With: "baking"
How to make the classic buttery
The browser search which brought most visitors to this site last year was: “How many calories in a buttery?” Yes, it’s a mystery to me, as well. For those of you who don’t know the culinary traditions of North-east Scotland, the buttery, also known as a rowie, is an individually sized flat bread made of [...]
Rye Bread
There are many different rye bread recipes from around the world. They range from the very dark pumpernickel from Germany, to American rye breads so light in colour that they could almost be ordinary brown loaves. This recipe will give you a loaf that is most recognisably a rye bread, but with minimum potential for [...]
Brioche
Brioche is one of those Sunday-morning treats. The sweet, eggy French bread is not cheap to make and takes a bit of time, but the results are usually excellent. If we’re realistic, you’re not going to bake this on the morning of eating, so we recommend 30 seconds in the microwave to warm it through before [...]
Lemon-poppyseed cupcakes
These lemon-poppyseed cupcakes are moist and tangy. We have included a recipe for lemon icing that complements them best, although the picture shows the cupcake uniced. In road-testing, more than half our samplers decided that the cupcakes worked better on their own. If we’re honest, we, too, prefer them without the icing. Iced cupcakes, whether [...]
Apple-Almond Dessert Cake
The beauty of this recipe is that the sharpness and texture of the apples combine with a denser sponge to produce a moist cake that is very moreish. You can leave off the flaked almonds if you like, but they add further texture, and the total effect is a cake that virtually begs to be [...]
Basic white bread
Here is a surprising tip when it comes to making your own white bread: avoid organic flour. This flies in the face of current health propaganda and shopping trends, but organic flour is notoriously difficult to work with. The professional bakers to whom I spoke dislike working with it intensely because even they, with all [...]
Tuna and sweetcorn quiche
This is based on the classic French rural snack, with the addition of tuna to broaden the flavour, and a higher than usual onion content to make it snappy. A shake or two of Tabasco is never a bad idea, either. You can make your own shortcrust pastry but, to be honest, the ready-made stuff [...]
Chocolate muffins
Most home-made muffins turn out like stones (because the batter hasn’t been whipped long enough); too crusty (because the oven temperature is set too high) or have a crumbly, powdery texture (because you have used margarine or oil instead of butter). This recipe produces soft, moist and high-rising muffins whose only risk of disaster is [...]
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In the May, 2013, issue, Norman Harper gets a telling-off for ignoring an old North-east Scottish superstition.
