Tag - pastry

pie made with brick pastry
Making Food

Science of Brick pastry & Warqa

The more you learn about different cuisines, the more similarities you can see between them. So, when recently learning about brick pastry, which is a very thin dough cooked on a flat griddle, I quickly learned that a...

November 29, 2019
4 min read
bowl of choux pastry puffs with craquelin chocolate
Deconstructing Recipes

How craquelin on choux pastry works

Have you ever seen those profiteroles or cream puffs with a speckled decorated top? The pattern on top almost looks like dried out earth, with a lot of cracks and spaces in between the darker spots of decoration? Note...

November 12, 2019
6 min read
clotted cream and scones
Understanding Ingredients

Science of your clotted cream

There are a lot of different creams out these in the supermarket nowadays. An acidic sour cream to top a baked potato, a heavy whipping cream to top your apple pie and so many more. Clotted cream is yet another one and...

January 3, 2020
5 min read
palmier cookies
Making Food

Puff pastry – Science of flaky layers

Making puff pastry sounds very daunting to a lot of home bakers. Folding and folding of doughs, butter sticking out, hours and hours of work. You might have seen contestants struggling with it on tv baking shows or...

January 5, 2020
8 min read