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.
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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!
A visit to Melt
Posted in Cooking & Eating on May 26th, 2010
Jane Mason, Gingerbread Girl, visits Louise Thomas, chocolate consultant, at Melt Chocolates in Notting Hill.
Jordan’s crunchy cereal sour dough bread (OMG – YUM)
Posted in Cooking & Eating on May 24th, 2010
Jane Mason, Gingerbread Girl opines about sourdough bread made with Jordan’s muesli. Delicious!
Chocolate Muffins
Posted in Cooking & Eating on May 11th, 2010
Jane Mason, Gingerbread Girl, responds to Rosie Lovell’s request for chocolate muffin recipe with choc cheese cake recipe from Canada.
The Sour Dough Story
Posted in Cooking & Eating on Mar 29th, 2010
Jane Mason, writer and artisinal baker who specialises in sour dough discusses sour dough bread as a summary to the chapter on baking without yeast in her book on bread.
An amazing fact about marzipan…
Posted in Cooking & Eating on Mar 26th, 2010
Not eveyone likes marzipan as much as I do. Now, granted, that might be difficult seeing as it is one of my favourite foods and I can eat it any way it comes: modelling marzipan by spoon; cake marzipan by package; marzipan filling (via excavation); marzipan in any form at all. What is not to [...]
Easter makes me think of Easter Bread
Posted in Cooking & Eating on Mar 18th, 2010
It’s coming up to Easter and that makes me think of home baked Easter Bread. Virtually every European country has Easter bread of one sort or another. I have tested and tried; tried and tested and have come up with a few rules of thumb:
1. The dough for Easter Bread is rather like a brioche [...]
Recipe from Julia’s kitchen
Posted in Cooking & Eating on Mar 11th, 2010
On a recent trip to Germany to learn more about how they bake bread there, Julia effortlessly scooped some lemon sorbet out of a tupperware containter which signalled: home made. Pause. Think. Effortlessly scooped. I do not associate that with home made. I associate home made (no ice cream maker) with stuff that closely resembles ice cubes. It’s the method that’s the trick. Read more (and the recipe) here.
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