Baking Guides

Crumpets and English muffins turn up on the same breakfast table, look roughly the same sitting on a plate, and get muddled up constantly. They are not the same thing at all. The batter is different, …

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Ask anyone with a good Christmas cake recipe and they'll tell you the same thing: the preparation decides how moist, rich and memorable it turns out. The traditional timeline starts three months bef …

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Whether you've been baking for decades or you're putting on an apron for the first time to follow along with the Bake Off, there are always small techniques that make a disproportionate difference. T …

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It's all about the pastry. A good filling in a tough, greasy or soggy case is a wasted filling — and the difference between the two is rarely the recipe. Pastry is the same four ingredients alm …

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