Category: Pastry

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Picture post: things I’ve made on courses

Pastries picture postWhen browsing through my phone the other day, I found a load of pictures of things I’ve made when I’ve been on baking courses.

This led me to reminisce about going to other places, which we obviously can’t do at the moment. So I thought I would put some of my favourite pictures into a blog post.

Where I can remember what they are, I’ve added that. But there’s quite a few that I have no idea as these courses were at least three years ago.

Anyway, I hope you like these pictures. Next year I’m going to make an effort to do more things like this. I feel a bit cooped up at the moment, I don’t know about you! But it is what it is and it’s not changing at the moment.

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I made a delicious quiche

When I turned 30, I went to Devon on a week-long patisserie course at the Ashburton Cookery School.

It was a lovely way to spend a week; there were 8 of us in total and the tutor was really friendly. We were based in a beautiful kitchen and the tutor demonstrated various things, which we would then make. The small class size meant that the tutor was always around to help, which was so valuable – as a trained chef, his techniques and tips were great. Continue reading “I made a delicious quiche”

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Sweet pastry – my new nemesis?

This post is from 2018 and was saved in my drafts, but I didn’t publish it. So now, a year later, here it is…!

I have previously tried to make sweet pastry twice; once in my flat in the middle of summer and once on a pastry course in the middle of summer. As sweet pastry mainly consists of butter, and funnily enough butter just melts when it’s hot, neither ended particularly well.

So, one morning I turned off all the heating in my flat. It was snowing outside which, coupled with no heating, made my kitchen (my whole flat really) like a fridge. ‘Perfect conditions to give sweet pastry another go,’ I thought. I used a Mary Berry recipe – been a while since we’ve seen one of those on here hasn’t it!

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