We celebrate Queen’s Birthday in New Zealand today. And what would be better than celebrating it with a home made scones for Devonshire  Tea. Devonshire Tea is a classic English dish. To learn and read more about here, check the web page “The Devonshire Tea Guide“.  I cam across these little scones with cream and
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I had some red wine left and remembered a cake we had often in the 80ties and 90ties.       This cake is a chocolate cake with chocolate chips in it. But it also contains red wine instead if milk. WARNING: I have to put a warning up here. This cake contains alcohol. I am not
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A user asked me for a recipe for sourdough bread rolls. I looked for some rolls that have a crunch outside and a soft and nice rustic flavor inside. I also tried two different baking methods of which one came out nicely and the other one not quite as nice. On the texture and the
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      I have to admit, I like these cookies. I like the nutty and oaty flavor of them. I tried several recipes over some time and ended up with this one. A mix of several recipes and experiments. You need very fine oatmeal. I do not get this here. What I did is
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What to bring to a party? and even when it is an Octoberfest party?  I decided to make some traditional brezels.  Brezels get their taste and color from a bath in lye.  You can use baking soda dissolved in warm water as lye, but that does not give them the same touch as traditional ones.
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This bread is a typical dark rye bread with 1/3 of the rye flour fermented in a sourdough. It is a big loaf with a thick and dark crust. This bread uses two different pr dough’s. One sourdough with rye flour and a yeast dough with wheat flour. I mixed it by hand, as most
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  Back in the 80-ties an aunty made cakes – big cakes and she made a chocolate gateau as well. A simple chocolate sponge with a chocolate cream. This cake is typical German, not too rich on ingredients, simple to make and just chocolate.  This cake is inspired by these kind of simple gateau’s I know
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For our Easter tea with friends I made this sponge cake roll. Nothing traditional for Easter but easy to make and a great taste.  This roll has 3 components: The sponge cake, an simple biscuit  cake, rolled up when it comes out of the oven.  The sponge is soaked with some coffee. The filling is a
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It is an old English Easter tradition – Hot Cross Buns.  I tried many recipes over the past years and always comes back to this one I found on the Wild Yeast Blog. I changed the recipe slightly and reduced the sugar.  These buns a fluffy and full of flavor. The spices give them a
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The other day I got some kibbled rye and wheat, so I thought I bake a classic mix bread with it. To use the kibbled grains without having stone like pieces in your bread you need to cook them before you use it. So if you use grains always cook them 10th 150% of water
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