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Pie fries!
“It’s not nice to play with your food.” Sure it is! You know how you take leftover bits of pie crust dough, sprinkle them with cinnamon-sugar, and bake up a crisp, buttery/sugary treat? Baker John...
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Puff pastry
Puff pastry. Buttery, flaky, delicate. Hundreds of layers of dough and butter. Hard to make? Let’s see how the Bakery at King Arthur Flour does it. Start with a base dough, made with flour, salt,...
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Laminated dough
We recently hosted bakery owners Andy and Jackie King at our Baking Education Center here in Norwich, VT, where they taught a delightful class in laminated dough, the multi-layered, buttery dough used...
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Whole Wheat Breakfast Eclairs
For 20 years, I begged my husband to let me get chickens. “Please, please, please?” I’d say. “They don’t take up much room, and we can have all the eggs we want.” Eventually we built a shed in the back...
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Cream Puffs and Éclairs: puff & stuff
About a month ago, I posted the following question on our King Arthur Flour Facebook wall: “Question: Have you, would you, or are you interested in making cream puffs, chocolate éclairs, and/or...
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“Instant gourmet”
OK, I’m just going to come right out here and say it: I’m not a crafty person. No, not the “crafty as a fox” kind of crafty; I mean I don’t possess the gene for quilting, or scrapbooking, or decorating...
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Pie anxiety
What do a spoonula, a large plastic bag, a spray bottle of water and parchment paper have in common? They’re all part of the arsenal when I start to make pie crust. Of course, there’s a rolling pin and...
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Taking on the toaster tart challenge
Believe it or not, I think one of the driving forces behind baking is competition. As in, “I can make a better birthday cake than the supermarket.” Or “My dinner rolls taste better than the bakery’s.”...
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Sparkle-icious
Did you know July 9 is National Sugar Cookie Day? Looking ahead, July 11 is National Blueberry Muffin Day. And the 12th? National Pecan Pie Day. Alas, you already missed National Clams on the Half...
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Smoked salmon and cream cheese tart
We’ve been putting recipes out there for a long time. Our subscription baking newsletter, The Baking Sheet, specializes in seasonal, tested recipes, many of which come from our readers’ ideas. This...
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Pink puffery? Read on…
Pink. Pink. PINK! Pink ribbons. Pink jewelry. Pink pens and T-shirts and bath sponges. A pink KitchenAid mixer; pink M&Ms. Pink ribbon-shaped bagels at Panera. Pink Ribbon Barbie! Heck, even...
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Love flaky turnovers? Don’t love fussing? Blitz puff to the rescue
Tender turnovers, stuffed with sweetened raspberries, the pastry shattering into a shower of buttery shards with each bite… How DO you make that pastry? It must be hard, right? A delicate touch,...
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Fresh tomatoes
Tomato envy. It’s everywhere. From Norwich, Vermont, to Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin, to Ashland, Oregon, the annual Tomato Competition is in full swing. “How big are your tomatoes?” “Oh, well, they’re coming...
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Mama needs a new pair of choux
Shoe paste? Pat a shoe? What the heck are these people talking about? Profitawho? Profitawhat? Come on now, stop speaking nonsense and tell me what I need to know. Can I make it, can I eat it, and does...
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Making baker’s croissants
You haven’t really made friends with a croissant until you’ve met one coming out of the oven. Oh, so light, crisp on the outside, tender inside, and fragrant with ever-so-slightly toasted butter. It’s...
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Samosas
Who doesn’t love to eat with their fingers? Honestly, I believe that behind closed doors everyone wants to pick up their food, take a bite, and be able to hold onto their own little bit of yumminess,...
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Turkey chili hand pies
Turkey soup, again? Surely, you can’t be serious. “I am serious, and don’t call me Shirley.” Now that you’ve had your pop culture reference for the day, I’m totally serious about the turkey soup. I...
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Mushroom-Cheddar Quiche: not all pies are sweet
Remember Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche, that 1982 fun-poking paean to masculinity? Well, thankfully, that statement was never true. I mean, think of the King, with his “four and twenty blackbirds, baked...
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