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NiceRecipes in Evernote!

Posted in photo on March 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »

As an avid Evernote user, imagine how surprised I was to find an image from my blog used in the Evernote website section on the application of this information management software for cooks and foodies! One of my photographs of grandma’s recipe notebook was used to illustrate how the advanced features in Evernote can recognise [...]

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Ice Cream

Posted in custard powder, gelatine, ice cream, milk, sugar, sweet on March 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Here’s another ice cream recipe, and one that is quite different from the earlier recipe for Perfect Vanilla Ice Cream. This one has no cream or eggs but uses gelatine (read more about how it is produced from animal parts here) and custard powder (which I’ve commented on here).
It also calls for the use of [...]

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Doughnuts

Posted in baking powder, butter, egg, milk, sweet, wheat flour on March 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Doughnuts are a hard food to pin down. They come in fried or baked versions, and can be made by a huge variety of methods: some are like breads and use yeast as a leavening agent, while others rely on baking powder; they can be made by the muffin method or by the creaming technique. [...]

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Rose Syrup

Posted in cochineal, rose essence, sugar, sweet on March 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »

These two pages are most interesting in terms of dating my grandmother’s notebook, and reveal that grandma was making notes in here well before December 1957 as I had earlier assumed.
On the first page, you’ll notice notations made at at least three or four different points in time: the original recipe in blue-black ball point [...]

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