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Fruit crumble
Fruit crumble
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A fruit pudding: very easy to do and delicious: just a layer of fruit with a golden crunchy topping.
344K4.0 1 hour 11 min. February 21th 2011
Flambéd bananas
Flambéd bananas
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The trick of this recipe is to end up with bananas caramelised on the outside, still firm on the inside, coated with a tasty syrup which is not 95% butter.
312K 14 40 min. February 21th 2011
Icelandic-style fish and vegetable pie
Icelandic-style fish and vegetable pie
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This recipe is made from vegetables cut small and blanched, mixed with pieces of salt-cod and cream, then baked in small soup dishes with a puff pastry lid.
266K3.9 4 hours 35 min. September 7th 2018
How to prepare egg glaze
How to prepare egg glaze
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Bakers and pastry chefs use a glaze ("dorure" in French - the same word as for gilding) made with whole full eggs, beaten in a blender. This is used with a brush on pastry that would not naturally brown during cooking (brioche, puff pastry, ...).
291K4.3 2 min. October 17th 2018
Coconut pyramids
Coconut pyramids
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Small coconut cakes, golden, crusty, and soft inside.
325K3.7 49 min. February 21th 2011
How to know when a cake is cooked
How to know when a cake is cooked
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It's a frequently asked question and it's not so easy to answer it, especially for beginners: you can have a cake that's nice and golden brown outside, but which is not cooked enough in the middle.
273K4.1 1 min. May 7th 2020
How to dust
How to dust
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"Dusting" in cooking is sprinkling a very fine layer of something in powder form. Icing sugar or cocoa powder on cakes for example. As this is not very easy to do evenly, here is a way to do it.
142K5 2 min. October 13th 2010
Creamy risotto with diced vegetables and flax seeds
Creamy risotto with diced vegetables and flax seeds
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Risotto is one of the great Italian recipes. It's the special way in which rice is cooked and mixed with several other things, which produces this famous dish. One can make different flavour risottos, here is a fairly simple recipe with diced vegetables and flax seeds.
244K 14.2 1 hour 49 min. February 21th 2011
Real home-made chips*
Real home-made chips*
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It's not easy to make these - the original "French fries" - well at home, that is, to produce golden and crunchy chips from fresh potatoes. Here is a way of doing it in three cooking stages, which gives very good results: melting in the middle, crunchy on the outside, and a nice golden colour....
420K5 1 hour 47 min. December 30th 2019
Pain perdu
Pain perdu
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This is a sweet French version of "eggy bread": slices of bread soaked in a mixture of milk, cream, egg yolks and vanilla sugar, then pan-fried until golden. It's really simple and wickedly delicious!
157K3.8 39 min. July 20th 2011
Lumberjack turnovers
Lumberjack turnovers
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These are small stuffed bread turnovers (similar to calzone), made with fougasse dough and filled with bacon, mushrooms, onions, cheese and tomato sauce. Lovely and golden-brown after baking, they are best eaten hot or while still warm.
106K5 3 hours 45 min. May 10th 2023
Pecan fruit rolls
Pecan fruit rolls
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These pecan nut and dried fruit rolls, wrapped in golden caramelized puff pastry, are really delicious.
99K4.9 1 hour 21 min. September 11th 2018
Caribbean upside-down cake
Caribbean upside-down cake
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The dominant flavours in this cake are pineapple and almonds. The pineapple is caramelized first separately, with brown sugar and lime, before being laid in the bottom of the tin. The cake batter is then poured over. The cooked cake is turned out to reveal the lovely golden pineapple layer on top a...
58K4.7 1 hour 7 min. December 30th 2019
Roasted Cauliflower
Roasted Cauliflower
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Roasting cauliflower in the oven is a delicious way to enjoy the vegetable: golden-brown on the outside and melt-in-the-mouth inside. In this recipe, the cauliflower is blanched first, then brushed with herb butter before roasting in the oven.
63K5 1 hour 12 min. March 27th 2016
Fish "à la Bordelaise"
Fish "à la Bordelaise"
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Fish "à la Bordelaise" is a fillet topped with a crust of breadcrumbs, herbs and onions cooked in white wine, then oven-baked until golden brown. It is a classic frozen family meal that many French children have grown up with, but here is a home-made version that is far better.
75K4.4 1 hour 7 min. February 20th 2019
Comtois surprise bread
Comtois surprise bread
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In this recipe, a simple burger bun is hollowed out to hide a filling of fried potatoes and bacon in a pool of hot cancoillotte cheese. It is usual to eat the filling first, then the bread, still piping hot, with the remaining cheese. Children really love this!
27K 38 min. May 10th 2020
Roast potatoes "à la provençale"
Roast potatoes "à la provençale"
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These roast potatoes with echoes of Provence are cooked in 2 stages: boiled first, then finished in the oven until golden and crisp. They can be served on their own, to accompany meat, or simply with a good green salad.
26K 1 hour 45 min. September 12th 2021
Auvergne gratin
Auvergne gratin
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Cauliflower, green cabbage, potatoes and of course Saint-Nectaire for this gratin with Auvergne flavors.
4,833 1 hour 50 min. December 10th 2023
Foie gras fingers
Foie gras fingers
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An elegant canapé which consists of a crisp layer of shortcrust pastry topped with a layer of foie gras.
126K4.6 2 hours 50 min. December 21th 2011
Small cheese and bacon rolls
Small cheese and bacon rolls
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These small aperitif snacks can be prepared in advance and heated at the last minute, or served cold.
346K5 1 hour 23 min. September 7th 2018
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Making your own bread
Making your own bread
In praise of home-made bread, so much better.
562K 63.9 August 29th 2023
Closed fire cooking
Closed fire cooking
Construction of a Fayol bread oven: closed fire cooking, with the embers removed .
50K4.4 August 29th 2023
The steam machine
The steam machine
Continuous steam in the oven with the steam machine.
55K4 August 29th 2023
Blog articles: 7 results
The golden-brown finish on puff pastry
The golden-brown finish on puff pastry
Let's take a look at the tricky matter of producing puff pastry with an attractive, golden-brown finish. French pastry chefs call this "dorure" (literally, "gilding"). Behind this quirky term there lurks a real problem (and the solution): when using puff pastry (pâte feuilletée) for a pie, or...
39K 24.7 February 8th 2018
Fried potatoes or fried mash?
Fried potatoes or fried mash?
In cooking there are a lot of dishes that appear to be extremely simple but which can actually prove to be very tricky. Amongst those that I'm aware of having this reputation are omelette and fried potatoes. Take fried potatoes; it's very simple because it's all there in the name of the dish: you...
20K4.5 February 6th 2011
Drawing a pattern in pastry
Drawing a pattern in pastry
Often in the kitchen, in pastry-making, or in baking, we need to trace a pattern on a pastry. It's just a question of aesthetics but it has its effect after baking on a galette, pithiviers, pâté en croute (terrine in a pie crust), etc.
25K4.1 May 23th 2019
The baker always gild twice
The baker always gild twice
I've already told you about gilding, the beaten whole egg that is spread with a brush on anything that needs to brown in the oven: puff pastry, pastries, etc. and that professionals use a lot, I'm going to come back to this to clarify a bit how to do it, and give you a professional tip.
26K4.2 June 9th 2019
The French baguette and UNESCO
The French baguette and UNESCO
As you may have already read here or there, France has initiated for some time the procedure to try to have the French baguette classified as an intangible world heritage by UNESCO. When you put it like that, it sounds a bit namby-pamby, and it would be tempting to imagine an American (for...
10K4.9 March 18th 2020
What happens to the bread when you make it?
What happens to the bread when you make it?
This bread that we eat every day, and that our baker makes for us, what happens during its manufacture so that it becomes bread? I will try to answer this question, and to summarize the complex alchemy that takes place.
8,4884.9 May 28th 2021
The peak of the apple season
The peak of the apple season
As I write these lines, we are in the middle of the apple season, and it's an apple year, as you may have noticed if you have apple trees around you, they are bursting with fruit! Excellent news for the people in the west of France in particular, but let's have a little thought for those in the...
4,7505 October 23th 2021
Utensil: 1 results
Steam machine
Steam machine
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It's essential to have a lot of steam in the oven during baking to get lovely golden crusty loaves.Bakers have a special steam control on their ovens which injects water at the start of baking. With a wood-fired bread oven a simpler system is needed.I've try several systems and ideas, here is the...
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