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Pastries

Fresh Sheep’s Milk Ricotta Doughnuts with Warm Orange Honey & Cinnamon

by Laura 29 March 2011
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This week I’m testing one of the editors’ pick candidates for Food52’s ricotta recipes contest.  But, to be perfectly honest, I completely muddled the recipe.  I haven’t been sleeping much for the last two years, too much work to allocate more time with my eyes at rest.  So I thought I had faithfully transcribed the [...]

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Poached Pear & Fresh Ricotta Turnovers

by Laura 18 March 2011
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I’m not very good with non-critical deadlines.  Taxes, work, all good.  But I think I have missed entering the Pillsbury Bakeoff about ten times, and last time around I didn’t check the time of day that entries closed and, busy checking my recipe for the nth time, missed it by 11 minutes.  So, it should [...]

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Kouign Amann

by Laura 16 February 2011
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I don’t know whether to write a love poem to the Breton people, to David Lebovitz, or to kouign amann itself.  Oh, I love you, all three of you!  I have been daydreaming about a homemade kouign amann since I found out this week that a long lost friend from childhood has been living in [...]

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Heart-shaped Jam Doughnuts Rolled in Pink Sugar

by Laura 12 February 2011
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It doesn’t happen to me very often anymore—the last time was a disastrous shepherd’s pie over which we spent half an hour literally doubled over in laughter while making up alternate names for the recipe before we chucked it in the bin and headed to a restaurant for dinner—but I still have flops here and [...]

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Danish Hazelnut Snails (Snegler)

by Sophia 24 January 2011
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A Guest Post by my Honey Girl Every Saturday morning during high school I would wake up early to bake. I particularly liked recipes that called for the butter to be cut into the dough by hand. I loved the rhythm of the integration and the feeling of pinching those cold knobs of butter into [...]

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Cream Tea: A Proper Cup of Tea with Cream Scones, Homemade Clotted Cream, & Jam

by Laura 10 January 2011
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When we lived in England, one of my favorite things to do was to pause for cream tea in the afternoon. It’s such a nice respite in the middle of a busy day, so civilized, and so edifying. It really only takes a few minutes, too. These cream scones are prepped and out of the [...]

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Almond Danish Kugelhopf

by Laura 4 December 2010
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Making puff pastry is no picnic.  The butter has to be the same temperature as the dough.  You have to be pretty stellar with a rolling pin.  And, at least for me until I’m more practiced, it’s not always a pretty picture.  This recipe uses a fake-out puff pastry, which you make by leaving bean-sized [...]

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