Adding fruit danishes to my weekend menu and two fears: fruit juice soaking the pastry soggy, and the cut fruit going dry and sad-looking on the display counter by noon. How do proper bakeri...
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My recipe says instant yeast, the shop only had active dry, the packet sizes are different, and the internet is having seventeen arguments about it. Are these actually different products? Sa...
Recipes say "proof 1 hour" and my kitchen clearly didn't read the recipe. Sometimes an hour is perfect, sometimes the dough is barely moving, sometimes it's over the edge of the bowl at 40 m...
Getting regular requests for yeast-free bread from Jain customers and I want to serve them properly, not fob them off. Can actual bread be made without yeast? And if what I make is more cake...
Finally NAILED my pav dough after weeks of this forum's therapy 😄 now I'm wondering - is this dough a one-trick pony or can it moonlight as other products?
Attempted a strawberry insert for entremets. Sprinkled the pectin into the warm puree and it instantly formed evil little jelly pearls that refused to dissolve no matter how hard I whisked 😤...
I have three different charts saved from three different sources and they don't agree with each other 🙃 Before I ruin more couverture - what are the actual melt and working temperatures for...
From Lucknow, looking at a full-time programme in Delhi. The fee I can plan for. What I can't estimate is everything around it... accommodation, food, transport, tools, and whatever costs no...
Recipes with strawberry/raspberry puree always assume you have some fancy imported tub. Where do people actually buy fruit puree here? And can I just... make it? Or use compote I already hav...
I finish my course in a few months and everyone keeps saying the first year is brutal but nobody describes it concretely. What does a normal day actually consist of? How much is real pastry...