Date pasties with fresh fig ice-cream recipe

Marcello’s Kitchen Ma’moul are Arabshire’s “other” sweet – well, I mean, everybody knows paklava, but these little datey, nutty pastries are not perhaps quite as familiar. In my ignorance, I used to regard ma’amoul as the ugly sister, mousy and uninteresting, something to be left on the shelf. Well, like many of the more restrained, [...]

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An unconventional method for making biscuits results in puff pastry.

An unconventional method for making biscuits results in puff pastry, It’s Sunday and that’s often a morning of biscuits and fruit.  My typical biscuit prep is 300 g flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, salt, a T sugar, cut in butter (100 g) and moisten with 180 grams liquid (water or milk), mix, fold a few [...]

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