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Kids’ Menu Hall of Fame. A bench knife is a piece of stainless steel that generally measures about 46 inches. You can live without one, but life is so much easier with, as it lets you easily divide pounds of dough, cut up butter, slice cinnamon rolls, scrape your work surface clean, and transfer cut-out cookie dough to a sheet pan. Biscuit and cookie cutters. Around the edge of the pan will help moderate the heat to avoid the dome. Look for racks that can go in the dishwasher and have a full grid, not ju...

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Kids’ Menu Hall of Fame. Book Review: Mast Brothers Chocolate. Written October 22, 2013. Feeling uncool in the kitchen? Need a lot more hipster at your stove? With its painstakingly retro design, bearded Brooklynites, more-artisanal-than-thou essays, and too-hip-to-give-you-much-detail recipes, Mast Brothers Chocolate has you covered. None of which is to say, if that description turned you off, that the book isn’t worth reading. If you can get past the […]. Written October 22, 2013. Granny never made fri...

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Kids’ Menu Hall of Fame. And some of its special editions), and as a copy editor. Her two cookbooks. Desserts From an Herb Garden. Were published by St. Martin’s Press. Be Sociable, Share! Sweet Memories: Baking the Treats of Childhood. Dessert First on Facebook. Dessert First is proudly powered by WordPress. Dessert First web content. And licensed for your use under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

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Book Review: Mast Brothers Chocolate « Dessert First

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Kids’ Menu Hall of Fame. Laquo; Book Review: Caramel. Book Review: Mast Brothers Chocolate. By Sharon Kebschull Barrett. Feeling uncool in the kitchen? Need a lot more hipster at your stove? With its painstakingly retro design, bearded Brooklynites, more-artisanal-than-thou essays, and too-hip-to-give-you-much-detail recipes,. And so they become craft chocolatiers, opening a factory and retail store in Brooklyn to sell their chocolate bars wrapped (of course) in custom papers they designed. Still, for co...

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Kids’ Menu Hall of Fame. A Baker’s Garden Dozen. Since moving several years ago, I’ve been without a garden, until I finally got one started this year. We built a fence, laid down good soil, and put in some little plants. My plan was to build trellises based on a design I’d read about, but I couldn’t find the right netting. Meanwhile, it rained. […]. An Eclectic List of Classic Cookbooks. Good grief, it’s December already? Any Grill in a Storm. Batten down the hatches! So, we’ve braved our way thro...

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Kids’ Menu Hall of Fame. Have a baking question? It on, and we'll do our best to answer it! For a new baker, what are some tips to make a decent cake? If it’s a butter-based cake, use softened butter so it whips properly. One stick of butter in my microwave for 45 seconds at low power comes out malleable, just right for beating. *Grease and flour the pans (or, preferably, brush them with a mixture of equal parts vegetable oil, flour, and shortening, beaten until combined […]. Dessert First on Facebook.

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Book Review: Caramel « Dessert First

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Kids’ Menu Hall of Fame. Laquo; Book Review: The Glorious Vegetables of Italy. Book Review: Mast Brothers Chocolate. By Sharon Kebschull Barrett. Depending on a reader’s teeth, the reaction to Carole Bloom’s. Will be either Sweet! If the former, this will be a book worth buying. A sticky mix of caramel sauce and a touch of apricot jam fill a rich Linzertorte dough; chocolate tartlet shells hold caramel sauce topped with chocolate ganache; and a thick caramel fills chocolate sandwich cookies. This entry w...

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Kids’ Menu Hall of Fame « Dessert First

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Kids’ Menu Hall of Fame. Here’s how it all started, with a column I wrote in 2004:. Children’s menus have turned me into a conspiracy theorist. Never one to fall for such nonsense, I’m deeply uncomfortable about this. And yet, what else should a parent think? Until I read those menus, that is. Then it hit me: Restaurants are playing this weird game of pretending they want my kids to eat there, while in reality, they’re trying to kill them. When this column came out (see the full column here. A restaurant...

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Keeping tabs on town business. Laquo; A better class of deer. Some nitwit phoned in a bomb threat against the Greenbridge construction site on Thursday. Chapel Hill police responded to the report and work was suspended at the West Rosemary Street site. It’s at least the second time someone has done that a bomb threat was called in last August. Who could possibly be so upset with Greenbridge as to phone in a threat? Maybe a construction worker who didn’t feel like coming in early yesterday? Maybe the deer...