Pastry Maestra
Free Video Tutorials on Baking, Pastry making and Creating Desserts. Have a sweet life!
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oppy seeds are dried, kidney-shaped seeds of the annual plant Papaver somniferum (En. sleep-bringing poppy). The plant is used in production of opium, and just in case you ask yourselves – yes, you can fail a drug test after eating poppy seeds, for real!
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ho doesn’t like to curl in front of TV, tucked in a blanket on a cold winter night, holding a cup of hot tea in one hand, and tin full of cookies in another? The only problem is that no tin is big enough… you know what I mean?
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aiser rolls, also called Vienna rolls or hard rolls, are crusty, round yeast raised rolls that originated in Austria. The word ‘kaiser’ means emperor in German, and there is a belief that they got the name after Emperor (Kaiser) Franz Joseph I of Austria who lived at the turn of 19th and 20th century.
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hocolate and caramel tart, raspberry and almond tart, apple tart, lemon meringue tart, vanilla custard and fresh fruit tart, chocolate ganache tart, Sablé cookies, Viennois cookies, Linzer cookies, quiche Lorraine … to make it short and sweet – shortcrust pastry!
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heat is a member of the grass family that produces a dry, one-seeded fruit commonly called a kernel. Its point of origin is in the Tigris and Euphrates river valley, near what is now Iraq. More than 17,000 years ago, humans gathered the seeds of plants and ate them. After rubbing off the husks, early people simply chewed the kernels raw, parched or simmered. Today, instead of chewing kernels, we enjoy the whole what bread!
