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Michel Roux Jr’s Pumpkin and swede crumble
Michel Roux Jr’s face is a wonder. It makes Masterchef the Professionals, full of wonderment, shock, horror and pleasure, and he looks like a thoroughly nice gu…
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Brandy butter porridge
Brandy butter and custard are the condiments that save British christmas desserts. Without them it would be all dried fruit and stodge. But brandy butter (and b…
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‘Too good to include’ oriental pork ribs
I first made these ribs for inclusion in a chili recipe , but that didn’t work out so well. It turned out that they were so good that not only did most of the m…
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400 Years of mince pies: the decline of meat
It’s well known that mincemeat used to contain actual meat and now the only remnant of that fact is the presence of suet in some recipe s. In the age of fridges…
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Roast red pepper, basil and cucumber focaccia
I ate a roast red pepper, cucumber and basil sandwich once, it reminded me of watermelon. This bread does not remind me of watermelon, but it still tastes great…
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Beating pendula
The above is a recreation of a nice physics demonstration video from Harvard was doing the rounds recently ( original ). A series of pendula oscillate all with …