Seasonal eating (even when the produce gets a bit long in the tooth)
Posted in Cooking & Eating on Jun 29th, 2010
Jane Mason, Gingerbread Girl opines about seasonal food, particularly rhubarb, and shares some of her favourite ways to use it.
Monthly Archive for June, 2010
Top Tip: for Cream Cheese Icing
Posted in Adventures in thought, word, and deed on Jun 23rd, 2010
I always wonder why cream cheese icing in the UK is so different (worse) than cream cheese icing at home in the lovely country of Canada. I finally figured out that the cream cheese is different. I don’t know if you can still get the solid blocks of philadelphia cream cheese at home but that [...]
The sourdough share save scheme goes international!
Posted in Cooking & Eating on Jun 8th, 2010
Jane Mason, Gingerbread Girl exchanges 1857 sourdough for some dried german dough! Also continues to experiment with backferment…
Adventures with Jordan’s Cereal Sourdough bread
Posted in Cooking & Eating on Jun 4th, 2010
Jane Mason, Gingerbread Girl bakes sourdough bread with Jordan’s Cereal Crunchy and Muesli for a double bake off!
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