February 2012
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Short and Tweet Challenge 17: Dan Lepard's...
This week’s #shortandtweet challenge from Dan Lepard’s Short & Sweet was for meringues in various guises. Eg pg 445 (plain, Double chocolate or Lemon sherbert) to be served plain or teamed with suitable available preserves (eg, chunky marmalade as a good contrast to the chocolate meringue shells); Apricot meringue tart pg 451; sunshine in a jar with the easy lemon curd (pg 342) and eating...
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Short and Tweet Challenge: March 2012 Schedule
March 2012 schedule for the #shortandtweet challenge from Dan Lepard’s Short & Sweet. (Read about #shortandtweet challenge and its conditions.)
The dates are those by which I’d like to receive links or photographs: please tweet these @foodcraftspace or @evidencematters using the hashtag #shortandtweet or leave links in the comments for the appropriate challenge announcement post....
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Short and Tweet Challenge 16: Light Cream Cheese...
This week’s #shortandtweet challenge from Dan Lepard’s Short & Sweet was for light cream cheese pastry as a pie topping for: Chicken and mushroom pies, pg 488; Shin of beef, chorizo and pinto bean pies, pg 489; Pork and parsnip pies, pg 491; Leek, smoked haddock and Lancashire cheese pies, pg 491; or Broccoli, Stilton and potato pies, pg 492. The opening photograph is from @Misky of Misk...
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Short and Tweet Challenge 15: Crêpes, Scotch...
This week’s #shortandtweet challenge from Dan Lepard’s Short & Sweet was for Crêpe Suzette Tour d’Argent pg 280; Betsy’s Scotch pancakes pg 279; or the Beer batter for fish that Dan details pg 285 (with a helpful suggestion to make onion rings from any leftover batter: “frozen ones on sale at the supermarket are just so dismal”). The opening photograph is...
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Short and Tweet Challenge 14: Lentil-stuffed...
This week’s #shortandtweet challenge from Dan Lepard’s Short & Sweet was for Lentil-stuffed flatbreads pg 73; Superwraps pg 72 or North-South cornbread pg 53. [I’ve opened with @north_19’s photograph of her cornbread as it seems particularly comforting in the present weather and I’m feeling a trifle nesh and in need of even vicarious comfort.]
Although she name-checks...
January 2012
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Short and Tweet Challenge 13: Spinach and ricotta...
This week’s #shortandtweet challenge from Dan Lepard’s Short & Sweet was for Spinach and ricotta pasties pg 538 or Buckwheat onion kugel pg 539. Yet again, I’d selected these recipes with some reservations that I discovered to be shared by others (judging by various comments on Twitter or in blog posts) but, yet again, we seem to have been won round by the recipe and our enjoyment of...
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Short and Tweet Challenge 12: Spelt and ginger...
This week’s #shortandtweet challenge from Dan Lepard’s Short & Sweet was for Cookie Monsters everywhere who are feeling the need for some options now supplies of their “sometime food” from the holiday season have finally run out: Rye and raisin cookies pg 247 or Spelt and ginger cookies pg 245. I’m a tad ambivalent about cookies as I rarely eat them and I never bite into a...
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Short and Tweet Challenge: February 2012 Schedule
February 2012 schedule for the #shortandtweet challenge from Dan Lepard’s Short & Sweet. (Read about #shortandtweet challenge and its conditions.)
The dates are those by which I’d like to receive links or photographs: please tweet these @foodcraftspace or @evidencematters using the hashtag #shortandtweet or leave links in the comments for the appropriate challenge announcement...
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Short and Tweet Challenge 11: Soft baps and Cider...
This week’s #shortandtweet challenge from Dan Lepard’s Short & Sweet was for Soft white baps pg 60 or Cider vinegar muffins pp 65-69 or Superwraps pg 72. As far as I know, nobody attempted the Superwraps [update: mea culpa, I was wrong]. The runaway baking, taste and texture revelation for this week was for those of us who’d never attempted the soft white baps before. The photograph...
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Short and Tweet 10: Coconut Layer; Saffron, Peach...
This week’s #shortandtweet challenge from Dan Lepard’s Short & Sweet was for Coconut milk layer cake pg 153 or The Alchemist’s chocolate cake pg 148 or Saffron peach cake pg 137. Cake seemed like a good idea at this point in January and I tried to select items that I thought might be in people’s store-cupboards (with varying degrees of success). The photograph above is of the sole...
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Short and Tweet 9: Rye crispbread and pumpkin &...
This week’s #shortandtweet challenge from Dan Lepard’s Short & Sweet was for Extra-thin rye crispbreads pg 262 or slightly more opulent winter warmer Pumpkin and cider farls pg 537. I’ve opened with a photograph of Jo of Zeb Bakes’ rye crispbreads because a number of us admired the patterns.
I like both of these recipes because they can be made quickly (and it’s useful...
December 2011
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Short and Tweet 8: Sausage Rolls, Savoury Scones &...
This week’s #shortandtweet challenge from Dan Lepard’s Short & Sweet tackled our widespread reluctance to make pastry (there was an option of savoury scones for people who avoid pastry): we made the Hot crust sausage rolls on pg 505 or the savoury scones on pg 534. I’ve opened with a photograph of Misky’s rolled-out pastry because the colour variations throughout the bakes are...
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Short and Tweet Challenge: January 2012 Schedule
January 2012 schedule for the #shortandtweet challenge from Dan Lepard’s Short & Sweet. (Read about #shortandtweet challenge and its conditions.)
The dates are those by which I’d like to receive links or photographs: please tweet these @foodcraftspace or @evidencematters using the hashtag #shortandtweet or leave links in the comments for the appropriate challenge announcement...
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Short and Tweet 7: Rye apple cake
This week’s #shortandtweet challenge from Dan Lepard’s Short & Sweet was the hale and hearty sounding Rye apple cake, pg 136 (above photo is from Zeb Bakes). I specifically selected it because Dan Lepard mentions that it’s an “ideal introduction” for anyone who hasn’t used rye-flour in cake making. It’s eye-opening to work with a flour that produces a different...
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Short and Tweet 6: Wholemeal Loaf from Dan...
This week’s #shortandtweet challenge from Dan Lepard’s Short & Sweet encouraged us to make the Wholemeal Loaf on pg 31 (some participants baked something else but we’re nothing if not diverse). For both beginner and experienced bakers, I strongly recommend reading through the comments on the following posts because there is a mass of useful information in them concerning substitutions,...
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Short and Tweet 5 Challenge: Peanut Brittle and...
This week’s #shortandtweet confectionery challenge from Dan Lepard’s Short & Sweet seems to have both intrigued and unnerved people in equal measure. I’d selected Cardamom peanut brittle pg 314 or Sesame ginger halva pg 319 because it seems that a number of us tend to shy away from working with hot sugar and it seemed an ideal time to overcome this if any of us were considering home-made...
November 2011
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Short and Tweet 4 Challenge: Top tea cakes
This week’s #shortandtweet Top tea cakes challenge from Dan Lepard’s Short & Sweet (pp 88-9) gave a spicy Winter baking scent to our home and I daresay that of our immediate neighbours.
I selected the Top tea cakes recipe because it’s not something that I would ordinarily bake (and, as matters turned out, I didn’t - not really). It seems that BakeCakeCrumbs of Cake,...
Short and Tweet Challenge Schedule for December
December schedule for the #shortandtweet challenge from Dan Lepard’s Short & Sweet. (Read about #shortandtweet challenge and its conditions.)
The dates are those by which I’d like to receive links or photographs: please tweet these @foodcraftspace or @evidencematters using the hashtag #shortandtweet or leave links in the comments for the appropriate challenge announcement post. I’ll then...
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Short and Tweet 3 Challenge: Cheese and black...
This has been a week of landline failures and power outages. As my mobile had been returned because of a screen fault and subsequently lost by the repairers it was also an unexpectedly protracted tumble into a communications black hole. Thankfully, I had both Cheese & black pepper buttons and Buttermilk oatcakes from Dan Lepard’s Short & Sweet (pp 258-9) to sustain me in those trying times...
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Short and Tweet 2 Challenge: Olive oil and potato...
My mother’s potato cakes were so irresistible that one of my aunts used to remark, “They’d give an anchorite a case of the TTTs” (tummy touching table). So, it was a blend of nostalgia, interest and a slight feeling of apprehension for household waistlines that prompted the selection of this week’s Olive oil and potato flatbread from pg 77 of Dan Lepard’s Short &...
Short and Tweet 2: Olive oil and potato flatbread
I selected the Olive oil and potato flatbread from pg 77 of Dan Lepard’s Short & Sweet because I’m inordinately fond of potato cakes and potato bread. I adore potato in all of its many guises and I’m intrigued by this recipe because I’m more accustomed to using mashed potato in potato baked goods than working with grated raw potato.
I should also declare more than a passing...
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Short and Tweet Challenge Schedule for November
November schedule for the #shortandtweet challenge from Dan Lepard’s Short & Sweet. (Read about #shortandtweet challenge and its conditions.)
The dates are those by which I’d like to receive links or photographs: please tweet these @foodcraftspace or @evidencematters using the hashtag #shortandtweet or leave links in the comments for the appropriate challenge announcement post....
October 2011
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Short and Tweet 1: Chocolate and Almond Fudge Cake
I originally suggested that we bake the Chocolate and Almond Fudge Cake on pg 142 of Dan Lepard’s Short & Sweet because I was curious about the texture of a cake with oatmeal and ground almonds.
Unlike the adventurous Choclette of ChocLogBlog I’ve never made “chocolate porridge” so I was impressed when she confessed, “the raw mixture of this cake tasted like an...
Short and Tweet Challenge
Dan Lepard’s Short & Sweet is tempting more people to explore the rich world of home baking, whether as absolute beginners or experienced bakers who are always on the look-out for tips to improve their skills.
A number of us have been enthusing about the book so it seemed logical that at some point we’d want to bake the same recipe and compare notes and experiences (whether by...