Natural leaven

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Leaven is a natural raising agent, a fermented mixture of water, flour and the microscopic yeasts which are present in the air. It's a delicate living substance, sensitive to the external environment. The recipe is around 4000 years old and dates back to the Egypt of the Pharaohs, via a beautiful...
1.7M 304.0 7 days 15 min. April 3^rd 2020

How to prevent a sheet of paper sliding

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If you put cooking parchment on a baking sheet, you will find it slides all over the place, which is annoying.
65K4.5 3 min. February 21^th 2011

Yeast-based flaky dough (for croissants)

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This yeast-based flaky dough (or croissant dough) is where puff pastry meets a yeast dough (such as brioche dough). This means that not only will we get flaky layers, but the dough will also swell and rise. The method is along the same lines as for a feuilletage: the basic dough is first kneaded,...
137K 4 3 hours 58 min. June 9^th 2019

How to prepare white beans

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When you want to use white beans in a recipe, most of the time you use dried beans. They're handy, but they're hard and not easy to use, but don't worry, in this recipe you'll see how to prepare and cook them.
8,037 12 hours 17 min. August 16^th 2023

Making your own bread

In praise of home-made bread, so much better.
562K 63.9 August 29^th 2023

Finishing touches

Construction of a Fayol bread oven: finishing touches and accessories.
71K4.4 August 29^th 2023

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 23^th 2019

The magic of local wines

It's never easy to find the right wine to serve with the dish you've just cooked for your guests, because we're not all amateur sommeliers, and then there are so many possible choices in wines that "the perfect match" seems like a distant utopia, almost impossible to obtain. Add to that a lot of...
6,9164.7 April 7^th 2020

Let's go easy on the salt

In terms of cooking, I'm probably not teaching you much, salt is ubiquitous, we put it in almost all our dishes, in varying amounts depending on our taste, some like salty, others less, others still not. Its main role is the flavor, the taste, we say that it is a flavor enhancer, ie it reveals the...
4,4774.8 February 20^th 2021