The Brioche went into the oven after lunch, but not until after it had been painted with egg wash. Reminder of how it appeared before rising Ten minutes at 180°C in my fan oven, followed by 25 minutes at 160°C resulted in this Which I hope you will agree, looks almost good enough to eat 🙂 It …
Monthly archives: May 2013
A Red Letter Day
My first snail mail receipt from this latest phase of letter writing has arrived. Can I tell you how pleased I am that it came in a RED envelope – I doubt it. It tickled me pink anyway – and it came from Mia. When I registered at Lettermo last week, the first person to pop up and greet …
Baking Bucket List: Brioche
So why have I never made Brioche before? It’s extremely straightforward! I was tempted to say “easy” but I shall bite my tongue until the results emerge from the oven. I used the recipe from the River Cottage Handbook #3 and the locally available white bread flour. The recipe was recently reproduced at The Guardian, …
Down time
Things remain a little flat here and there is little of interest going on in my kitchen. I have been concentrating on catching up with the girls in the back garden — and today I finally cleared the last egg tray! I did cheat a little and two dozen went into the freezer, in six-egg batches. We …
Plans
I am fairly well stunned. Mr L has the bit between his teeth and is insistent on cooking a meal for my birthday. He’s not a bad cook, but pretty inexperienced overall, and multi-tasking in the kitchen tends to be a bit beyond his ability. He likes to cook but does become very stressed sometimes. Curry is …
Saturday Morning
A large deposit at the bank this morning added to an already sizeable reserve – and provided my Blip for today. Popped across the road to Lady PO after divesting ourselves of three skiploads, and I posted two letters to the USA and one to Malaysia, picking up one of my favourite sizes of Really Useful Box …