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Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Fluffy Buttermilk Pancakes
Tall, tender pancakes with a tangy edge and a golden, even surface. The lumps in the batter are not a mistake — they…
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Dinner
Classic Smash Cheeseburger
A smash burger with lace-edged, deeply browned patties, American cheese melted to the edges and a soft toasted bun…
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Desserts
Fudgy Cocoa Brownies
Cocoa-based brownies with a paper-thin crackly top and a dense, fudgy middle. No chocolate to melt, no mixer needed…
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One-Bowl Banana Bread
One bowl, one whisk, and the darkest bananas you can find. Browning the butter first adds a nutty depth that turns…
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Dinner
Butter Chicken (Murgh Makhani)
Delhi's murgh makhani: tandoori chicken finished in a sauce of tomatoes, butter and cream, balanced with a whisper…
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Desserts
New York Cheesecake
Dense, tall and creamy with a faint tang, on a buttery biscuit base. The water bath and a slow cool in the…
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Dinner
Baked Mac and Cheese
A baked macaroni cheese with a proper béchamel, three cheeses and a buttered breadcrumb top. Evaporated milk and a…
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Dinner
Katsu Curry
A breaded cutlet sliced over rice and flooded with Japanese curry sauce — thicker, sweeter and darker than an Indian…
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Dinner
German Pork Schnitzel
Pork loin beaten thin, breadcrumbed and fried in a shallow pool of butter and oil so the coating puffs away from the…
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Baking
Overnight Cinnamon Rolls
Soft, tall rolls made with a tangzhong starter that keeps them pillowy for days, filled with cinnamon-butter and…
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Desserts
Deep-Dish Apple Pie
A deep-dish pie with a properly crisp bottom crust and apples that hold their shape. Pre-cooking the filling is the…
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Appetizers
Buffalo Wings
The Anchor Bar original, baked rather than fried using a baking powder trick that makes the skin crackle like it…
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Desserts
Molten Chocolate Lava Cake
Individual chocolate cakes with a liquid centre, from oven to table in twenty minutes. The whole trick is pulling…
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Dinner
Lasagna Bolognese
A proper lasagne alla Bolognese is a study in patience: a three-hour ragù, a nutmeg-scented besciamella and…
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Dinner
Dal Makhani
Black urad lentils and kidney beans simmered overnight, then finished with butter and cream until the dal is almost…
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Dinner
Chicken Katsu Curry
Japan's favourite comfort food: a panko-crusted chicken cutlet sliced over rice and flooded with a thick, gently…
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Dinner
Jollof Rice
Rice cooked in a reduced pepper and tomato base until the grains are stained deep orange and a smoky crust forms at…
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Breakfast
Brioche French Toast
Thick brioche soaked long enough to reach the centre, cooked slowly so the custard sets rather than scrambles. It is…
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Dinner
Beef Bourguignon
Julia Child put this Burgundian beef stew on every home cook's bucket list, and it earns the effort: beef braised…
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Breakfast
Three-Egg Omelette
Three eggs, butter, and about ninety seconds. The French rolled style has no colour at all and a barely-set centre…
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Desserts
Pastéis de Nata
Lisbon's custard tarts: laminated pastry shells filled with a loose cinnamon custard and blasted in a furnace-hot…
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Breakfast
Belgian Waffles
Yeast-raised Brussels waffles: tall, rectangular, crisp on the outside and hollow-light inside, dusted with icing…
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Butter Croissants
Genuinely laminated croissants with a honeycomb interior and a shattering shell — 27 layers of butter folded into…
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Dinner
Chicken Pot Pie
Chicken and vegetables in a velvety sauce under an all-butter pastry lid that shatters when you break through it…
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Bakery-Style Blueberry Muffins
Tall domed muffins with a crunchy sugar top and berries that stay suspended rather than sinking. The high-then-low…
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Dinner
Miso Ramen
Sapporo-style ramen: a miso tare whisked into rich pork or chicken broth, stir-fried pork and vegetables piled on…
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Quick Meals
Skillet Grilled Cheese
Mayonnaise on the outside instead of butter, two cheeses for flavour and melt, and eight minutes over patient…
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Japanese Milk Bread (Shokupan)
Shokupan: the pillowy square loaf found in every Japanese bakery, built on a cooked flour paste that lets the dough…
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Desserts
Cinnamon Churros
Ridged, crackling churros dusted in cinnamon sugar with a pot of dark chocolate for dipping. The dough is a simple…
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Garlic Butter Naan
Blistered, chewy naan cooked in a screaming-hot cast-iron pan and brushed with garlic butter. Yogurt in the dough is…
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Baking
Vanilla Cupcakes
Light vanilla cupcakes with a flat-ish top for frosting, made by the reverse-creaming method that coats the flour in…
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Dinner
Beef Stroganoff
Strips of seared beef in a mustard and soured cream sauce with mushrooms, done in twenty-five minutes. It is a fast…
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Garlic Naan
A yoghurt-enriched flatbread slapped onto the wall of a tandoor, or in a home kitchen onto the underside of the…
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Lunch
Philly Cheesesteak
Thinly shaved ribeye, sweated onions and melted cheese crammed into a soft hoagie roll. The debate over Cheez Whiz…
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Breakfast
Eggs Benedict
Poached eggs and ham on a toasted muffin under a blanket of hollandaise. The sauce is the whole game, and the…
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Dinner
Shepherd's Pie
Lamb mince in a rich gravy under a piped mash with crisp golden ridges. Made with beef it is a cottage pie; the…
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Appetizers
Paneer Tikka
Cubes of paneer marinated in spiced yoghurt, threaded with peppers and onion, and charred hard under a grill until…
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Breakfast
Crispy Hash Browns
Grated potato squeezed bone dry, pressed into a pan of butter and left completely alone until a solid golden crust…
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Desserts
Red Velvet Cake
A tender buttermilk cake with a whisper of cocoa, a tang from vinegar and buttermilk, and a proper cream cheese…
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Dinner
French Onion Soup
Forty-five minutes of patient caramelisation turns four pounds of onions into something meltingly sweet and mahogany…
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Breakfast
Crisp Belgian-Style Waffles
Waffles with a crisp, deeply grooved shell and a light, almost hollow interior. Cornflour and whipped egg whites do…
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Desserts
Pistachio Baklava
Thirty layers of filo, three layers of spiced pistachio and walnut, and a citrus syrup poured over at exactly the…
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Cinnamon Sugar Doughnuts
Yeasted doughnuts fried until they wear a pale band around the middle, then rolled straight into cinnamon sugar…
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Dinner
Fettuccine Alfredo
Before the cream and the garlic crept in, Alfredo was three ingredients: pasta, butter and Parmigiano, whipped…
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Desserts
Spiced Carrot Cake
A properly spiced carrot cake, moist from oil and crushed pineapple, with walnuts for bite and a tangy cream cheese…
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Adjaruli Khachapuri
A boat of bread filled with molten cheese, with an egg yolk and a knob of butter dropped in at the end and stirred…
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Holiday Specials
Classic Pumpkin Pie
A silky custard pie with proper spice and a blind-baked base that stays crisp. Cooking the purée down first…
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Dinner
Swedish Meatballs
Small, tender meatballs in a creamy pan gravy, served with lingonberry jam and mashed potato. The bread-and-cream…
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Snickerdoodles
Soft, cracked sugar cookies rolled in cinnamon sugar, with a distinctive tang from cream of tartar. Without the…
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French Macarons
The Parisian macaron, with smooth domed shells, ruffled feet and a chewy centre. This uses the more forgiving French…
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Buttermilk Biscuits
Tall, flaky Southern biscuits that pull apart in layers, made with cold butter, buttermilk and as little handling as…
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English Scones
Tall, straight-sided scones that split cleanly by hand rather than needing a knife. Cold butter, a light hand and a…
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Lunch
Croque Monsieur
The Parisian café sandwich raised to its proper form: ham and Gruyère between buttered pain de mie, blanketed in…
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Breakfast
Biscuits and Sausage Gravy
Flaky buttermilk biscuits split open under a peppery sausage gravy. A Southern breakfast built on cheap ingredients…
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Lemon Drizzle Cake
A plain loaf cake pierced all over while still hot and drenched in lemon and sugar, which soaks in and then sets…
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Japanese Cotton Cheesecake
The jiggly cotton cheesecake — somewhere between a soufflé and a sponge, barely sweet, and impossibly light. It…
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Peanut Butter Cookies
Dense, sandy peanut butter cookies with the fork-crosshatch pressed into the top. That pattern is not decoration —…
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Desserts
Sticky Toffee Pudding
A dark, date-sweetened sponge drenched in toffee sauce and served with cream. Blitzing the dates into a purée is…
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Lunch
Quiche Lorraine
The original quiche has no cheese in it, and once you taste this custard — barely set, heavy on cream, studded with…
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Dinner
Tandoori Chicken
A double marinade — first in lemon and salt, then in spiced yogurt — gets flavour deep into the meat before it hits…
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Holiday Specials
Herb-Butter Roast Turkey
A dry-brined, herb-buttered turkey that comes out with crisp skin and breast meat that is actually juicy…
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Desserts
Sicilian Cannoli
Blistered fried shells filled to order with sweetened sheep's-milk ricotta and candied peel. Filling them any…
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Lunch
Pav Bhaji
Mumbai's great street dish: a mash of vegetables cooked down on a giant griddle with a distinctive spice blend…
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Desserts
Pecan Pie
A dense, chewy custard of eggs, syrup and butter under a layer of toasted pecans, in a blind-baked shell…
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Victoria Sponge
Two golden sponge layers with jam and cream between, dusted with caster sugar. Named for a queen who took it with…
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Desserts
Apple Strudel
Pastry stretched until a newspaper can be read through it, rolled around spiced apples, breadcrumbs and raisins, and…
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Dinner
Pork Schnitzel
Pounded thin, breaded loosely and fried in a generous amount of fat so the coating puffs away from the meat. That…
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Dinner
Gratin Dauphinois
Waxy potatoes simmered in garlicky cream and baked until the top is bronzed and the layers have fused into something…
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Dinner
Shrimp and Grits
Lowcountry breakfast turned into dinner: prawns in a bacon and stock pan sauce over grits cooked slowly with cream…
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Dinner
Cottage Pie
Minced beef in a rich gravy under a mash topping forked into ridges and browned. Cottage pie is beef; shepherd's pie…
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Baking
Skillet Cornbread
Batter poured into a screaming hot skillet of bacon fat, which sets a crust the instant it hits. The Southern style…
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Dinner
Steak Frites
The bistro standard done properly: a hard-seared steak rested under herb butter, with twice-fried chips that stay…
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Desserts
Key Lime Pie
Sharp, silky lime custard in a buttery graham crust, set by nothing but the chemical reaction between lime juice and…
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Brioche Loaf
The richest bread in the French repertoire: a dough carrying half its weight in butter, worked until it is silky…
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Holiday Specials
Gingerbread Cookies
Cut-out gingerbread that holds a sharp edge, tastes strongly of spice and molasses, and stays chewy rather than…
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Dinner
Steak and Ale Pie
Beef shin braised in dark ale until it falls apart, under a lid of rough puff pastry baked until the top is…
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Dinner
Irish Stew
Lamb neck, potatoes and onions simmered slowly in stock with nothing else in the pot. The potatoes on top stay…
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Breakfast
Chicken and Waffles
Buttermilk-brined fried chicken on a yeasted waffle, with hot sauce and maple syrup poured over both. Sweet, salt…
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Appetizers
Beef Empanadas
Argentinian empanadas with a juicy, gently spiced beef filling, olives and egg, baked in a short pastry that stays…
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Kanelbullar
Swedish cinnamon buns scented with cardamom, twisted into knots rather than rolled into spirals, and finished with…
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Breakfast
Full English Breakfast
Sausages, bacon, eggs, black pudding, mushrooms, tomatoes, beans and toast, all arriving hot at the same moment. The…
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Desserts
Lemon Meringue Pie
Sharp lemon curd in a crisp shell under a cloud of meringue browned at the tips. Three components, three ways to go…
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Baking
Bavarian Soft Pretzels
Chewy, deep-mahogany Bavarian pretzels with a distinct alkaline tang, from a food-grade lye or baking soda bath…
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Desserts
Profiteroles
Choux buns filled with cold vanilla cream and drowned in hot dark chocolate sauce. The temperature contrast is the…
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Lunch
Reuben Sandwich
Corned beef, sauerkraut, Swiss cheese and Russian dressing between rye, griddled in butter until the cheese runs and…
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Dinner
Chicken Kiev
A chicken breast wrapped around a core of garlic and herb butter, breadcrumbed and fried so the butter is still…
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Desserts
Hong Kong Egg Tarts
Hong Kong dim sum tarts with a short, biscuity crust and a wobbling, barely-set custard that should be smooth and…
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Baking
Danish Pastries
Laminated yeast dough folded around cold butter three times, shaped into spandauer and cooked until the layers…
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Breakfast
Loaded Breakfast Burrito
Soft scrambled eggs, crisp potatoes, sausage and cheese rolled tight in a griddled tortilla. Built properly it holds…
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Dinner
Moules Marinières
Mussels steamed open in white wine, shallots and parsley in under ten minutes. The broth they release is the sauce…
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Lunch
Maine Lobster Roll
Maine lobster, barely dressed with mayonnaise, lemon and celery, piled into a split-top bun griddled in butter on…
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Baking
Scottish Shortbread
Three ingredients in the proportion one part sugar, two parts butter, three parts flour, baked pale and cut while…
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Dinner
Moussaka
Layers of roasted aubergine, spiced lamb ragù and a thick béchamel enriched with egg yolks and kefalotyri, baked…
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Dinner
Potato and Cheese Pierogi
Tender dumplings filled with potato and farmer's cheese, boiled and then fried in butter with onions. A weekend…
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Desserts
Alfajores
Two cornflour-heavy shortbread biscuits sandwiching dulce de leche and rolled in desiccated coconut. Argentinian and…
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Desserts
Sachertorte
Dense chocolate sponge split and layered with apricot jam, then coated in a poured chocolate glaze that sets to a…
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Dinner
Chicken Paprikash
Chicken braised in a sauce of onions and a great deal of sweet Hungarian paprika, finished with soured cream and…
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Dinner
Tahdig
The golden crust at the bottom of the rice pot, made deliberately: parboiled basmati steamed over a layer of yoghurt…
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Appetizers
Jamón Croquetas
A very thick béchamel studded with jamón, chilled overnight, rolled, crumbed and fried so the outside is crisp and…
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Appetizers
Maryland Crab Cakes
Maryland crab cakes are mostly crab: just enough binder to hold them, Old Bay for seasoning, and a grill rather than…
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Baking
Madeleines
Proust's shell-shaped tea cakes, with the crisp browned edge and the hump on the back that tells you the batter was…
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Dinner
Coq au Vin
Chicken braised in red wine with lardons, mushrooms and pearl onions — the rustic cousin of bourguignon, and faster…
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Desserts
Black Forest Cake
Chocolate sponge soaked in kirsch, layered with sour cherries and unsweetened whipped cream, finished with chocolate…
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Desserts
Crêpes Suzette
Paper-thin crêpes folded into an orange-caramel butter sauce and flambéed at the table with Grand Marnier. A piece…
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Dinner
İskender Kebab
Sliced döner laid over cubes of pide bread, drenched in a light tomato sauce, with browned butter poured over at the…
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Appetizers
Coxinha
Shredded chicken and cream cheese wrapped in a dough made from chicken stock and flour, shaped like a teardrop…
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Holiday Specials
Beef Wellington
Fillet of beef wrapped in mushroom duxelles and prosciutto, encased in puff pastry and baked until the pastry is…
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Desserts
Apple Tarte Tatin
Apples caramelised in butter and sugar directly in the pan, covered with pastry and baked, then flipped to reveal a…
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Desserts
Boston Cream Pie
Not a pie at all — two layers of sponge with vanilla pastry cream between them and a chocolate glaze poured over the…
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Desserts
Stroopwafels
Two paper-thin waffle discs split apart while hot and glued back together with hot caramel syrup. Best eaten…
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Dinner
Chicken Milanese
Chicken breast beaten thin, breaded and fried in butter until the crust is deep gold. Milanese in method, and the…
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Lunch
New England Clam Chowder
A proper white chowder — thickened with potato starch and a light roux rather than a bucket of cream — with sweet…
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Lunch
Cuban Sandwich
Roast pork, ham, Swiss cheese, pickles and mustard pressed in Cuban bread until the cheese melts and the crust…
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Lunch
Omurice
A Japanese diner classic: ketchup-seasoned chicken rice wrapped in a thin omelette, either folded neatly or, in the…
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Dinner
Toad in the Hole
Sausages baked in Yorkshire pudding batter until the sides climb the tin and the whole thing arrives dramatically…
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Quick Meals
Tuna Melt
Tuna mayonnaise under melted cheese on griddled bread, in the diner tradition. The tuna is dressed with celery and…
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Desserts
Knafeh Nabulsi
Semolina-orange dough over a layer of fresh white cheese, baked until the base is crisp and the top is orange, then…
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Quick Meals
Cheese Quesadillas
A properly made quesadilla is about the cheese pull and the crisp, blistered tortilla — nothing more. Ten minutes…
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Dinner
Potato Gnocchi with Sage Butter
Pillowy potato gnocchi that float rather than sink, dressed in nothing more than nut-brown butter and crisped sage…
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Dinner
Bratwurst with Sauerkraut
Bratwurst simmered in beer and onions and then browned, served on sauerkraut cooked down with apple and caraway.
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Baking
Anzac Biscuits
Oats, coconut, golden syrup and bicarbonate of soda bloomed in melted butter, baked chewy or crisp depending on how…
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Baking
Bakewell Tart
Shortcrust filled with raspberry jam and frangipane, baked until the almond filling is set and golden, and finished…
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Dinner
Käsespätzle
Soft egg noodles scraped straight into boiling water, then layered with grated cheese and topped with fried onions…
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Appetizers
Spanakopita
Spinach and feta between shattering layers of filo, brushed generously with olive oil and butter. The trick is…
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Dinner
Bangers and Mash with Onion Gravy
Good sausages, buttery mash and a proper onion gravy built from slow-caramelised onions and stock rather than a…
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Breakfast
Menemen
Turkish scrambled eggs cooked slowly into a base of peppers and tomatoes until just set — soft, saucy and eaten…
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Desserts
Cherry Clafoutis
A Limousin dessert somewhere between a flan and a pancake: cherries dropped into a loose batter and baked until it…
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Lunch
Cornish Pasty
Beef skirt, potato, swede and onion, all raw, sealed in shortcrust and baked for nearly an hour so everything cooks…
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Dinner
Carbonnade Flamande
Beef braised in Belgian brown ale with onions, a spoonful of brown sugar and a slice of mustard-spread bread stirred…
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Desserts
Bread and Butter Pudding
Buttered bread layered with raisins, soaked in vanilla custard and baked until the peaks are crisp and the middle is…
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Dinner
Risotto alla Milanese
The saffron risotto that Milan built its reputation on: bone-marrow rich, sunset gold, and finished with a violent…
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Baking
Panettone
The Milanese Christmas bread: a sweet, heavily enriched dough proved three times over two days, studded with candied…
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Dinner
Doro Wat
Ethiopia's national dish: chicken stewed in an enormous quantity of onions cooked down without any fat, then built…
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Desserts
Chocolate Éclairs
Crisp choux shells, split and piped full of vanilla crème pâtissière, capped with a dark chocolate glaze that sets…
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Desserts
Künefe
Shredded kadayif pastry packed around a layer of stretchy unsalted cheese, fried in butter on both sides and soaked…
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Dinner
Joojeh Kabab
Chicken marinated overnight in saffron, lemon and grated onion, grilled over coals and basted with saffron butter as…
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Desserts
Mille-Feuille
Three sheets of caramelised puff pastry alternating with crème pâtissière, topped with the marbled feathered icing…
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Dinner
Pastitsio
Greek baked pasta: tubes of bucatini standing on end under spiced lamb and a thick béchamel set with egg and cheese…
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Baking
Canelés de Bordeaux
A Bordeaux pastry with a black, almost burnt caramel shell and a soft, custardy centre shot through with rum and…
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Baking
Philadelphia Soft Pretzels
Philadelphia pretzels are oblong rather than fat, chewy rather than fluffy, sold in rows stuck together and eaten…
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Baking
Crumpets
Yeasted batter cooked in rings on a griddle until the tops are riddled with holes. Toasted, buttered, and eaten…
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Breakfast
Rösti
Grated potato pressed into a pan and fried slowly in butter until a deep golden crust forms on both sides and the…
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Baking
Lamingtons
Squares of day-old butter sponge dipped in thin chocolate icing and rolled in desiccated coconut, sometimes split…
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Desserts
Chocolate Soufflé
A soufflé that rises two inches above the ramekin and stays up long enough to reach the table, with a molten centre…
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Desserts
Knafeh
Shredded pastry over a layer of stretchy cheese, baked until the top is crisp and orange, then soaked in…
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Desserts
Torta Caprese
A flourless chocolate and almond cake from Capri with a crisp top and a dense, fudgy middle. Naturally gluten-free…
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Lunch
Smørrebrød
Dense rye bread, buttered to the edges, built up with one main topping and a short list of things that agree with…
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Dinner
Pelmeni
Small Siberian dumplings with a thin wheat wrapper and a raw meat filling, boiled and eaten with soured cream…
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Quick Meals
Bifana
Thin pork steaks marinated in white wine, garlic and paprika, cooked fast in the marinade and piled into a crusty…
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Desserts
Martabak Manis
A thick, spongy pancake with a honeycomb surface, cooked in a heavy pan, then split and filled with butter…
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Breakfast
Loco Moco
Rice, a hamburger patty, brown gravy and a fried egg, stacked in that order. Hawaii's answer to a plate lunch, and…
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Dinner
Haggis, Neeps and Tatties
Haggis baked in its skin, served with mashed swede and mashed potato and a whisky cream sauce poured over the lot.
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Desserts
Kaiserschmarrn
A thick sweet pancake torn into pieces in the pan, caramelised in butter and sugar and served in a heap with plum…
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Dinner
Sole Meunière
The dish that made Julia Child fall in love with France: sole floured and fried in butter, finished with foaming…
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Baking
Turkish Pide
Boat-shaped flatbreads with the edges rolled and pinched around a filling of spiced lamb or cheese and egg, baked…
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Dinner
Creamy Parmesan Polenta
Coarse cornmeal cooked slowly with plenty of liquid until it turns silky, then finished with butter and Parmigiano…
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Breakfast
Blini with Soured Cream
Small yeasted buckwheat pancakes, thicker and more savoury than a crêpe, served warm with soured cream and whatever…
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Dinner
Saltimbocca alla Romana
Veal escalopes under a sage leaf and a slice of prosciutto, pan-fried and finished with a white wine butter sauce…
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Dinner
Blanquette de Veau
France's great white stew: veal poached with aromatics, the broth turned into a velouté enriched with cream and egg…
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Desserts
Galaktoboureko
Semolina custard baked between layers of filo and drenched in cold syrup the moment it leaves the oven. The…
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Desserts
Basbousa
A semolina cake soaked in syrup and cut into diamonds with an almond pressed into each. Found from Egypt to Turkey…
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Dinner
Colcannon
Mashed potato beaten with buttery kale or cabbage and spring onions, with a well of melted butter in the middle of…
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Appetizers
Bitterballen
A stiff beef ragout chilled solid, rolled into balls, breadcrumbed and deep fried until the outside is crisp and the…
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Desserts
Prinsesstårta
Sponge, raspberry jam, pastry cream and a great dome of whipped cream, all wrapped in a sheet of green marzipan with…
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Dinner
Francesinha
Porto's sandwich: steak, sausage and ham between bread, wrapped in melted cheese and flooded with a beer and tomato…
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Baking
Pineapple Cake
Buttery shortbread cases filled with a firm, slightly tart pineapple and winter melon jam, baked in small square…
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Quick Meals
Welsh Rarebit
A thick, savoury cheese sauce spiked with mustard, ale and Worcestershire, spread on toast and grilled until…
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Dinner
Osso Buco alla Milanese
Cross-cut veal shanks braised until the meat collapses and the marrow turns to butter, finished with a raw hit of…
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Desserts
Zeppole
Choux buns fried rather than baked, split and filled with pastry cream, and topped with an amarena cherry. Made for…
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Desserts
Malva Pudding
A sticky apricot jam sponge with a hot cream and butter sauce poured over it the moment it leaves the oven, so it…
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Desserts
Trdelník
Sweet dough wound around a wooden spit, rolled in sugar and nuts and turned over coals until the outside caramelises…
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Dinner
Lohikeitto
Finnish salmon soup: potatoes and leek in a light stock, cream stirred in, salmon poached off the heat, and dill…
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Appetizers
Coquilles Saint-Jacques
Scallops poached in wine, folded into a mushroom velouté, piped back into their shells under Gruyère and browned. A…
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Lunch
Cullen Skink
Smoked haddock, potato and onion in a thick milk soup from the Moray coast. Four ingredients, and all of them have…
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Dinner
Musakhan
Palestinian roast chicken on flatbread soaked in olive oil, with a great quantity of sumac-stained onions and…
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Breakfast
Msemen
Semolina dough stretched translucent, brushed with oil and semolina, folded into square layers and fried until it…
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Appetizers
Sicilian Arancini
Sicilian rice balls with a molten mozzarella and ragù heart, breadcrumbed and fried until they shatter…
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Desserts
Poffertjes
Tiny yeasted buckwheat pancakes cooked in a dimpled pan, served in a heap with a lump of butter melting over them…
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Desserts
Maamoul
Semolina shortbread moulded around dates, walnuts or pistachios, pressed in a carved wooden mould and baked pale…
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Dinner
Svíčková
Beef sirloin larded with bacon and pot-roasted on a bed of root vegetables, the whole lot blended into a thick cream…
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Dinner
Frikadeller
Danish pork and veal meatballs, flattened into ovals and fried in butter until brown on both sides, served with…
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Appetizers
Toast Skagen
Prawns folded into dill mayonnaise with a squeeze of lemon, piled on a round of butter-fried bread and topped with…
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Desserts
Gâteau Basque
A thick shortcrust shell around a layer of vanilla pastry cream or black cherry jam, scored across the top before…
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Breakfast
Boxty
Half raw grated potato, half mash, bound with flour and buttermilk and fried into pancakes with crisp edges and a…
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Dinner
Norwegian Fish Soup
Salmon and white fish poached at the last minute in a creamy soup built on fish stock, root vegetables and a splash…
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Lunch
Ploughman's Lunch
Not cooking so much as assembly: a wedge of sharp cheddar, good bread, pickled onions, chutney, apple and butter…
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Dinner
Pastel de Choclo
A beef and chicken filling under a thick layer of ground fresh corn and basil, baked in earthenware and sprinkled…
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Baking
Bara Brith
Dried fruit soaked overnight in strong tea, then folded into a spiced batter and baked into a dense, dark loaf eaten…
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Baking
Karelian Pies
Thin rye shells crimped around a rice porridge filling, baked hot and brushed with melted butter, then topped with…
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Desserts
Krumkake
Thin, crisp waffle cones pressed in a patterned iron and rolled around a wooden cone while still hot. Filled with…
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Breakfast
Egg and Cottage Cheese Muffins
Baked egg muffins bound with cottage cheese and packed with spinach and cheddar — six to a batch, 42 g of protein a…
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Breakfast
Smoked Salmon Scrambled Eggs
Eggs scrambled slowly over low heat until barely set, with smoked salmon folded in off the heat and plenty of dill —…
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Holiday Specials
Vánočka
A nine-strand braided Christmas bread from Bohemia, enriched with butter and egg yolk and studded with rum-soaked…
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Holiday Specials
Julekake
Norwegian Christmas bread scented heavily with cardamom and full of candied peel and raisins — softer and less sweet…
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Holiday Specials
Joulutorttu
Finnish Christmas stars: rough puff pastry pinwheels folded round a spoonful of dark prune jam, dusted with icing…
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Holiday Specials
Cozonac
The Romanian Easter and Christmas bread: a rich yeasted dough rolled round a thick swirl of ground walnut and cocoa…
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Holiday Specials
Pan de Jamón
The Venezuelan Christmas loaf: a soft sweet dough rolled round ham, streaky bacon, green olives and raisins, so each…
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Holiday Specials
Bibingka
Filipino rice cake baked in a banana leaf over Christmas, topped with salted egg and cheese and finished with butter…
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Holiday Specials
Christstollen
Dresden Christstollen: a dense fruit bread heavy with rum-soaked fruit and marzipan, buttered and sugared while hot…
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Quick Meals
Kaya Toast
Charcoal-toasted white bread with a slab of cold butter and coconut-pandan jam, eaten with soft-boiled eggs seasoned…
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Quick Meals
Uitsmijter
Three fried eggs laid over ham and cheese on buttered bread — the Dutch lunch counter standard, named for the…
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Quick Meals
Æggekage
A thick Danish egg cake cooked slowly in one pan and finished under the grill, topped with crisp bacon, tomatoes and…
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Quick Meals
Malawach
Yemenite-Jewish laminated flatbread fried in a dry pan until the layers separate and blister, served with grated…
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Quick Meals
Croque Madame
Ham and Gruyère between buttered bread, blanketed in béchamel, grilled until it bubbles, and crowned with a fried egg.
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Baking
Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
Chewy in the middle, crisp at the rim, and heavy enough with oats that they hold their shape instead of spreading…
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Baking
Cut-Out Sugar Cookies
A cut-out sugar cookie that holds a sharp edge: no spreading, no puffed middles, and a crumb firm enough to ice and…
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Baking
Brown Butter Blondies
The blondie done properly: brown butter, dark brown sugar and no leavening at all, so the middle stays dense and…
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Baking
Lemon Bars
A thick, sharp lemon curd on a shortbread base that stays crisp underneath — the two problems every lemon bar has…
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Baking
Magic Cookie Bars
Seven layers, no mixing bowl: buttery crumb base, condensed milk, chocolate, butterscotch, coconut and pecans…
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Desserts
Classic Chocolate Layer Cake
The birthday cake standard: three dark, tender layers made with cocoa bloomed in boiling coffee, under a silky…
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Baking
Vanilla Sponge Cake
The plain vanilla sponge every other cake is built on: fine, even crumb, real vanilla, and enough structure to…
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Baking
Chocolate Cupcakes
Deep, dark cupcakes with a flat-enough top to frost and a crumb that stays moist for days. One bowl, a whisk, and no…
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Baking
Marble Cake
The German Marmorkuchen: one batter split in two, one half darkened with cocoa, and the two dragged through each…
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Baking
Pound Cake
A pound of each: butter, sugar, eggs and flour, creamed by hand until the batter is pale enough to be its own…
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Baking
Sour Cream Bundt Cake
A sour cream bundt with a fine, damp crumb and a lemon glaze that sets to a thin shell. The tin does the decorating…
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Breakfast
Chocolate Chip Muffins
Bakery-height domes, a crumb that tears rather than crumbles, and chocolate the whole way through instead of sunk in…
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Breakfast
Cinnamon Streusel Coffee Cake
The American coffee cake, which contains no coffee: a sour cream crumb cake with a thick cinnamon streusel on top…
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Desserts
Apple Crisp
Sharp apples under a topping of oats, brown sugar and cold butter that bakes to gravel rather than paste. No pastry…
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Desserts
Peach Cobbler
Southern-style: a loose batter poured over hot peaches so the fruit rises through it, baking into something between…
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Desserts
French Fruit Tart
The pâtisserie window tart: crisp sweet pastry, a proper vanilla crème pâtissière, and whatever fruit is worth…
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Dinner
Chicken Alfredo
Seared chicken over fettuccine in a sauce built from butter, cream and a great deal of real Parmigiano, emulsified…
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Dinner
Chicken Marsala
Floured cutlets, a pan full of browned mushrooms and a sauce reduced from dry Marsala and stock until it is glossy…
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Dinner
Chicken Piccata
Sharp, bright and finished in twenty minutes: thin cutlets in a lemon and caper sauce that gets its body from butter…
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Dinner
Lemon Pepper Chicken
Bone-in thighs roasted hard under a rub of lemon zest and coarsely cracked pepper, with the juice going on only…
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Holiday Specials
Prime Rib Roast
A standing rib roast cooked low until the whole joint is one shade of pink, then blasted at the end for the crust…
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Dinner
Spaghetti Bolognese
A three-hour ragù with milk in it, finished with the pasta rather than ladled over it. Not the twenty-minute version…
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Dinner
Penne alla Vodka
The pink sauce, done properly: tomato purée cooked hard until it darkens, vodka to carry the aromatics, and cream…
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Lunch
Broccoli Cheddar Soup
Thick, orange and unapologetic, with half the broccoli blended into the base and half left in pieces. The cheese…
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Dinner
Lobster Bisque
The shells are the recipe. They are roasted, simmered into a stock, and that stock is reduced hard before any cream…
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Dinner
Creamy Mashed Potatoes
Floury potatoes, a ricer, and butter before milk. The order matters more than the quantities, and it is the reason…
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Dinner
Baked Potato
Dry skin, oil and salt, and a wire rack rather than foil. Seventy minutes for a skin that crackles and an interior…
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Holiday Specials
Green Bean Casserole
The Thanksgiving standard rebuilt from ingredients rather than tins: a real mushroom velouté, blanched beans that…
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Holiday Specials
Sweet Potato Casserole
Roasted rather than boiled sweet potatoes, so the sugars concentrate instead of leaching into the water, under a…
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Holiday Specials
Sage and Onion Stuffing
Dried bread, a great deal of butter, onions cooked properly and enough stock that the middle stays soft while the…
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Dinner
Corn on the Cob
Eight minutes in unsalted water with a spoonful of sugar, and butter that goes on while the cob is still steaming…
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Dinner
Creamed Spinach
The steakhouse side: spinach wrung dry, folded into a nutmeg-scented béchamel and finished with Parmigiano…
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Quick Meals
Shrimp Scampi
Prawns, garlic, white wine, lemon and a great deal of butter, over linguine, in twenty minutes. The prawns come out…
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Dinner
Tuna Noodle Casserole
Rebuilt without the tin of soup: a proper mushroom béchamel, egg noodles cooked short, and a buttered crumb top with…
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Quick Meals
Garlic Butter Shrimp
Eight minutes from the fridge to the table. Prawns seared in a screaming pan, then finished in garlic butter with…
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Desserts
Chocolate Mousse
Four ingredients and no gelatine: melted chocolate, egg yolks, whipped whites and a little cream. The air is all…
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Desserts
Chocolate Fudge
Proper boiled fudge, taken to the soft-ball stage and then beaten as it cools. A thermometer and a clean pan are all…
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Desserts
Marshmallow Crispy Treats
Extra butter, extra marshmallow, browned butter rather than plain, and pressed lightly rather than packed. Six…
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Desserts
Banana Pudding
Layers of vanilla wafers, sliced banana and a real cooked custard, left overnight so the biscuits soften into cake…
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Desserts
Strawberry Shortcake
Sweet, craggy biscuits rather than sponge, split while warm and piled with macerated strawberries and barely-whipped…
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Baking
Millionaire's Shortbread
Three layers that each need doing properly: a shortbread base baked until sandy, a caramel boiled to the right…
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Holiday Specials
Mince Pies
Homemade mincemeat matured for a day, in a sweet shortcrust rich enough to hold together in the hand. Butter rather…
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Holiday Specials
Christmas Pudding
Steamed for six hours, then left to mature for as long as you have. The long steam is what turns a bowl of dried…
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Holiday Specials
Bread Sauce
Milk infused with onion, clove and bay, then thickened with nothing but breadcrumbs. Older than gravy, better than…
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Holiday Specials
Sufganiyot
Enriched doughnuts fried without a hole and filled after the fact, so the jam is a surprise rather than a topping…
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Holiday Specials
Galette des Rois
Two discs of puff pastry around a frangipane, scored in a sunburst and glazed to a mirror. There is a bean hidden…
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Holiday Specials
Bûche de Noël
A rolled chocolate sponge filled with cream, coated in ganache and dragged with a fork into bark. The sponge is…
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Baking
Hot Cross Buns
Soft, spiced and heavily fruited, with a piped flour cross and an apricot glaze that goes on while they are still…
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Holiday Specials
Simnel Cake
A light fruit cake with a disc of marzipan baked through the middle and eleven balls on top, one for each apostle…
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Breakfast
Dutch Baby Pancake
A single enormous pancake that climbs the sides of a screaming-hot skillet in the oven and collapses within a minute…
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Breakfast
Kedgeree
Smoked haddock, curried rice and soft-boiled eggs — a Victorian breakfast borrowed from khichri and improved by the…
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Breakfast
Eggs Florentine
Poached eggs on wilted spinach and a toasted muffin under blender hollandaise. The hollandaise takes ninety seconds…
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Dinner
Cauliflower Mash
Steamed rather than boiled, then blitzed with butter and cream cheese until it is genuinely smooth. Not a substitute…
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Dinner
Courgette Lasagne
Courgette planks salted, griddled and used in place of pasta, under a proper ragù and a béchamel. The griddling is…
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Breakfast
Bacon and Cheddar Egg Bites
Cooked in a bain-marie so they set like custard rather than scrambling into rubber. Twelve of them, and they reheat…
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Quick Meals
Garlic Butter Steak Bites
Cubes of sirloin seared hard in a smoking pan, then tossed off the heat in garlic butter. Ten minutes from fridge to…
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Dinner
Cauliflower Cheese
Cauliflower roasted rather than boiled, under a mustard-sharp sauce made with cheese that is actually strong enough…
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Lunch
Glamorgan Sausages
Welsh sausages with no meat in them: Caerphilly, leek and breadcrumbs, rolled and fried until the crust crackles…
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Dinner
Mămăligă
Coarse polenta cooked in salted water until it pulls away from the pan, layered with soft cheese and soured cream…
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Dinner
Kjøttkaker
Norwegian meat cakes: coarse beef bound with potato starch and milk, fried and then simmered in their own brown…
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Lunch
Australian Meat Pie
A shortcrust base and a puff lid over a thick, dark beef filling that has been cooked and then cooled before it goes…
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Breakfast
Cachapas
Sweetcorn blitzed to a batter and griddled into thick, sweet pancakes, folded around a slab of soft white cheese…
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Dinner
Stoemp
Belgian mash with vegetables crushed through it rather than blended in, so it stays coarse and flecked. A side dish…
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Dinner
Kousa bil Laban
Stuffed courgettes finished in the garlic and mint yogurt rather than tomato. Milder than the tomato version and, in…
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Dinner
Roz Mermah
Egyptian rice, which is short-grain and cooked with broken vermicelli browned in butter first. The default starch…
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Lunch
Kishk Masri
A thick soup of yogurt and flour cooked out slowly and poured over fried bread and onions. Sour, savoury and…
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Dinner
Macarona Bechamel
Penne bound in béchamel over a layer of spiced mince, baked until the top sets into a sliceable crust. Egypt by way…
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Dinner
Goulash Masri
Filo layered over spiced mince and baked in a tray, cut into squares. Nothing to do with Hungarian goulash — the…
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Desserts
Balah el Sham
Ridged fingers of choux fried rather than baked, dropped hot into cold syrup. The name means dates of Damascus…
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Desserts
Kunafa bil Manga
Shredded kunafa pastry baked crisp and layered with cream and fresh mango. A modern Cairo dessert, everywhere since…
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Appetizers
Gougères
Choux buns with cheese beaten through, baked until hollow and eaten warm with a glass of something cold. Burgundy…
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Appetizers
Escargots à la Bourguignonne
Snails baked under garlic and parsley butter until it bubbles over the shells. The butter is the recipe; the snails…
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Appetizers
Œufs en Meurette
Eggs poached in red wine and served on fried bread under a sauce made from the same wine. Burgundy taking the…
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Lunch
Vichyssoise
Leek and potato soup enriched with cream and served cold. Invented in New York by a French chef, which the French…
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Lunch
Potage Parmentier
The hot original that vichyssoise is a chilled version of: leeks, potatoes, water and butter. Julia Child called it…
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Dinner
Hachis Parmentier
Braised beef minced by hand under a potato purée and baked. The French version predates the English one and is made…
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Dinner
Magret de Canard
Duck breast started in a cold dry pan so the fat renders out slowly and the skin turns to glass. Fifteen minutes…
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Dinner
Poulet Rôti
Roast chicken with butter under the skin and lemon inside, started on its side. The French method turns the bird…
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Dinner
Entrecôte Marchand de Vin
Sirloin with a red wine and shallot sauce built in the pan the steak came out of. Marchand de vin means wine…
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Dinner
Cordon Bleu
Chicken breast wrapped around ham and cheese, breaded and fried. Swiss in origin, French in execution, and the seal…
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Quick Meals
Rognons à la Moutarde
Lamb kidneys seared hard and finished in a mustard cream sauce. Fifteen minutes, and the kidneys must leave the pan…
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Quick Meals
Foie de Veau Lyonnaise
Calf liver with onions cooked slowly to sweetness and a splash of vinegar at the end. Lyon does it best and does not…
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Quick Meals
Boudin Noir aux Pommes
Black pudding fried with apples cooked down in butter. Sweet against iron, and about as good as twenty minutes of…
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Dinner
Endives au Jambon
Chicory braised, wrapped in ham, covered in béchamel and baked. The bitterness of the chicory is the point and is…
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Dinner
Quenelles de Brochet
Pike beaten with choux paste into weightless dumplings, poached and baked in a crayfish sauce. Lyon, and one of the…
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Dinner
Bouchée à la Reine
Puff pastry cases filled with chicken, sweetbreads and mushrooms in a cream sauce. Named for Queen Marie…
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Dinner
Moules Frites
Mussels steamed open in white wine with shallots, and chips fried twice. The mussel liquor is the sauce and should…
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Dinner
Sole Normande
Sole poached in cider and cream with mussels and prawns. Normandy, so cider and cream rather than wine and butter.
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Dinner
Aligot
Potato purée beaten with fresh tomme until it becomes elastic enough to lift in ropes. From the Aubrac, and the…
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Dinner
Gratin de Macaronis
Macaroni in a nutmeg béchamel under Gruyère and breadcrumbs. The French version is looser and less cheesy than the…
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Quick Meals
Omelette aux Fines Herbes
A French omelette: pale, rolled, and barely set inside. Two minutes of cooking and about a decade of getting it right.
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Lunch
Galettes Bretonnes
Buckwheat crêpes filled with ham, cheese and an egg, the edges folded into a square. Savoury and dark, and a…
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Appetizers
Saucisson en Brioche
A poaching sausage baked inside brioche. Lyon, and the trick is that the sausage is cooked and cooled before it is…
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Baking
Pain au Chocolat
Laminated dough rolled around two batons of chocolate. The same dough as a croissant, and the same single problem…
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Desserts
Tarte au Citron
A thin pastry case filled with lemon curd set with butter and eggs. Sharp enough to make you blink, which is the…
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Desserts
Tarte aux Pommes
Apple slices fanned over an apple purée in a thin pastry case, glazed with apricot. The purée underneath is what…
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Desserts
Tarte Normande
Apples baked into an almond custard in a pastry case, with Calvados. Wetter and richer than a plain apple tart and…
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Desserts
Flan Parisien
A deep custard tart with a thick, wobbling set and a scorched top. Sold by the slab in every French bakery and…
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Desserts
Far Breton
A dense batter pudding with prunes, somewhere between a clafoutis and a flan. Brittany, and traditionally made with…
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Baking
Kouign-Amann
Laminated dough with sugar folded into the layers, so it caramelises against the tin and sets into glass. Breton for…
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Desserts
Paris-Brest
A ring of choux split and filled with praline mousseline, made for a bicycle race and shaped like a wheel. The…
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Desserts
Saint-Honoré
Puff pastry base, choux buns dipped in caramel, and piped crème chiboust between them. Named after the patron saint…
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Desserts
Religieuse
A large choux bun with a small one on top, both filled and glazed, finished with a collar of buttercream. Meant to…
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Desserts
Opéra
Six layers: almond sponge soaked in coffee syrup, coffee buttercream, chocolate ganache, repeated, and a poured…
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Desserts
Fraisier
Strawberries stood upright around the edge of a génoise, packed in mousseline cream. Summer, and the strawberries…
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Desserts
Dacquoise
Discs of nut meringue layered with buttercream. Chewy rather than crisp, which is what separates it from a vacherin.
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Desserts
Pithiviers
Almond cream sealed between two discs of puff pastry, the top scored in curves from the centre. The scoring is what…
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Desserts
Baba au Rhum
A yeasted sponge soaked until it is saturated with rum syrup. It should be heavy with it — a dry baba is a failed one.
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Desserts
Riz au Lait
Rice cooked slowly in vanilla milk until it is creamy but the grains still hold. Served warm in the bowl it was…
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Baking
Financiers
Small almond cakes made with brown butter and egg whites, baked hot so the edges crisp. Named for the gold-bar shape…
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Baking
Palmiers
Puff pastry rolled in sugar, folded into a heart and baked until the sugar caramelises on both faces. Three…
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Baking
Chouquettes
Small choux buns rolled in pearl sugar and baked empty. Sold by weight in paper bags and eaten before you get home.
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Baking
Gâteau au Yaourt
The cake every French child learns first, measured in the empty yogurt pot rather than on scales. Plain, reliable…
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Appetizers
Bagna Cauda
A hot bath of anchovy, garlic and oil kept warm at the table for dipping raw vegetables into. Piedmont in November…
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Appetizers
Supplì
Roman rice croquettes with a piece of mozzarella at the centre that pulls into a thread when you bite it. Supplì al…
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Dinner
Tagliatelle al Ragù
The Bologna ragù, which contains almost no tomato and cooks for three hours. Served on fresh egg tagliatelle and…
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Dinner
Tortellini in Brodo
Tiny filled pasta in clear capon broth, and nothing else. Emilia at Christmas, and the broth matters as much as the…
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Dinner
Agnolotti del Plin
Piedmontese filled pasta pinched shut along a single strip, so a row of them comes off the sheet in one go. Plin…
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Dinner
Pizzoccheri della Valtellina
Buckwheat ribbons layered with cabbage, potato and melting cheese under browned butter and sage. Alpine food, and…
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Dinner
Risotto ai Funghi Porcini
Rice cooked in mushroom stock made from the soaking water of dried porcini. That water is the flavour and pouring it…
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Dinner
Risi e Bisi
Venetian rice and peas, looser than a risotto and eaten with a spoon. Served to the Doge every 25 April and still…
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Dinner
Canederli
Bread dumplings with speck, from the Alto Adige, served in broth or with butter. The bread must be properly stale…
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Quick Meals
Scaloppine al Limone
Veal in a lemon and butter sauce that comes together in the pan in about ninety seconds. Fifteen minutes from cold…
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Dinner
Cotoletta alla Milanese
A veal chop on the bone, breaded and fried in clarified butter. Milan insists on the bone, and Milan is right about…
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Dinner
Parmigiana Bianca
Aubergine parmigiana with no tomato at all — just béchamel, basil and two cheeses. Lighter than it sounds and much…
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Dinner
Torta Pasqualina
A Ligurian Easter pie of chard and ricotta with whole eggs baked inside, under many thin sheets of pastry. Cut…
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Desserts
Sfogliatella Riccia
A shell of a hundred paper-thin leaves around a semolina and ricotta filling. The hardest pastry in Naples and worth…
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Desserts
Babà Napoletano
A yeasted mushroom-shaped cake soaked in rum syrup until it is heavy in the hand. Naples took it from Poland by way…
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Desserts
Pastiera Napoletana
A wheat, ricotta and orange flower tart that Naples makes on Good Friday and eats the following Tuesday. It…
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Baking
Cuccidati
Sicilian fig rolls: a spiced fig, date and nut paste inside a short pastry, cut into little pillows and iced. Made…
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Desserts
Struffoli
Tiny fried dough balls tumbled in honey and heaped into a ring with candied peel and sprinkles. Naples at Christmas…
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Baking
Torta Sbrisolona
A cake you break rather than cut, sandy with cornmeal and almonds. Mantua has made it since the Gonzagas and it has…
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Baking
Crostata di Marmellata
A jam tart under a lattice, made in every Italian house and eaten for breakfast as often as for pudding. The pastry…
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Ciambellone
The plain ring cake that sits under a cloth in Italian kitchens all week, dunked in coffee at breakfast and in milk…
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Colomba Pasquale
The Easter dove: the same enriched dough as panettone, shaped into wings and armoured in almond crust and pearl…
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Pandoro
Verona's Christmas cake: a tall eight-pointed star of deep yellow butter dough, baked plain and buried in icing…
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Pizzelle
Thin anise waffle wafers pressed in a patterned iron, crisp enough to snap. Abruzzo has made them since the eighth…
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Baking
Maritozzo
A soft sweet bun split almost in half and packed with an absurd quantity of whipped cream, then cut flush with a…
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Appetizers
Potted Shrimps
Tiny brown shrimps set in spiced butter and turned out on toast. Morecambe Bay has sent them south since the…
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Lunch
Leek and Potato Soup
Four ingredients, twenty minutes on the stove, and better than almost anything more complicated. The soup to know by…
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Appetizers
Scotch Woodcock
Scrambled egg on anchovy toast, and there has never been any woodcock in it. Churchill ate it, the House of Commons…
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Baking
Sausage Rolls
Good sausagemeat in butter puff, glazed and seeded. Everything wrong with a shop sausage roll is the pastry, and…
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Dinner
Lancashire Hotpot
Lamb and onions under a lid of sliced potato that browns while everything beneath it goes to nothing. Two and a half…
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Dinner
Steak and Kidney Pudding
Suet pastry lining a basin, filled with beef and kidney and steamed for four hours until the crust is translucent…
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Dinner
Liver and Bacon with Onion Gravy
Lamb's liver kept pink in the middle under a heap of onion gravy. Twenty minutes, and the reason to be careful is…
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Breakfast
Devilled Kidneys
Lamb's kidneys in a mustard, cayenne and Worcestershire sauce, on toast, at breakfast. A Victorian sideboard dish…
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Dinner
Gammon with Parsley Sauce
A gammon joint boiled in cider with a white sauce full of parsley. Old-fashioned in the best way and the source of a…
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Dinner
Stargazy Pie
A Cornish fish pie with the heads of the pilchards poking through the crust to look at the sky. It sounds like a…
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Dinner
Fish Pie
White fish, smoked fish and prawns under mashed potato, in a sauce made from the milk the fish poached in. The mash…
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Breakfast
Grilled Kippers
A split smoked herring under the grill with butter and lemon. Fifteen minutes including the toast, and better than…
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Dinner
Chicken and Leek Pie
Poached chicken and slow-cooked leeks under a proper pastry lid, in a sauce made from the poaching liquid. A pie…
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Dinner
Rabbit Pie
Rabbit braised with bacon and cider until it falls off the bone, then baked under pastry. The most-eaten meat in…
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Breakfast
Bubble and Squeak
Cold mash and cold greens pressed into a pan and fried until a crust forms on both sides. Named for the noise it…
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Dinner
Honey Roast Parsnips
Parsnips parboiled, roughed up and roasted in honey until the edges go almost black. The best thing on the Christmas…
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Dinner
Pease Pudding
Yellow split peas boiled to a purée in ham stock and set firm enough to slice. Tyneside eats it cold in a stottie…
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Dinner
Rumbledethumps
Potato, swede and cabbage mashed together, topped with cheese and baked. The Scottish Borders answer to what to do…
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Dinner
Champ
Mashed potato beaten with spring onions steeped in hot milk, served with a well of butter melting in the middle…
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Dinner
Pan Haggerty
Potato, onion and cheese layered in a frying pan, cooked on the hob and finished under the grill. Northumberland…
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Dinner
Stuffed Marrow
A marrow hollowed out, filled with spiced mince and baked with cheese on top. What the allotment demands every…
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Lunch
Watercress Soup
Watercress cooked for ninety seconds and blended immediately, which is what keeps it the colour of a wet lawn…
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Appetizers
Potted Cheese
Hard cheese beaten with butter, mace and port and sealed under more butter. Eighteenth-century, requires no cooking…
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Lunch
Cucumber Sandwiches
Thin white bread, salted cucumber, good butter, no crusts. Four ingredients, and every single one of them has to be…
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Desserts
Spotted Dick
A suet pudding studded with currants, steamed until it is light rather than heavy, and drowned in custard. The name…
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Desserts
Treacle Sponge Pudding
A steamed sponge with a pool of golden syrup at the bottom that becomes a sauce over the top when it is turned out…
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Desserts
Jam Roly-Poly
Suet pastry spread with jam, rolled up, and steamed into spirals. Known in every school in the country as dead man's…
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Baking
Treacle Tart
Golden syrup, breadcrumbs and lemon in a pastry case, under a lattice. Sweet enough to make your teeth ache and the…
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Desserts
Apple Crumble
Bramleys under a rubble of butter, flour and sugar. The whole argument is over the ratio, and it is three parts…
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Desserts
Queen of Puddings
A custard set over breadcrumbs, spread with warm jam and finished with meringue. Three separate puddings stacked on…
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Baking
Chelsea Buns
A spiral of enriched dough rolled around currants and spice, baked touching so the sides stay soft, and glazed…
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Desserts
Baked Rice Pudding
Pudding rice, milk, sugar and nutmeg baked for two hours until a brown skin forms on top. The skin is the entire…
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Desserts
Banoffee Pie
Toffee made from a tin of condensed milk, bananas, and a great deal of cream, on a biscuit base. Invented in a…
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Baking
Custard Tart
A pastry case filled with set egg custard and grated nutmeg. Nothing to hide behind, which is why it is the tart…
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Baking
Welsh Cakes
Spiced currant cakes cooked on a flat griddle rather than in an oven, dusted with sugar and eaten warm. Fifteen…
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Eccles Cakes
Currants in butter and spice inside flaky pastry, slashed three times and baked until the sugar on top caramelises…
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Yorkshire Parkin
An oatmeal, treacle and ginger cake that is inedible on the day it is baked and excellent a week later. Yorkshire…
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Baking
Dundee Cake
A light fruit cake with almonds arranged in rings on top, and no cherries in it at all. Made with Seville orange…
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Baking
Nai Wong Bao
Snow-white steamed buns filled with a set custard of egg yolk, butter and milk powder. The filling is made and…
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Desserts
Tangyuan
Glutinous rice balls with a molten black sesame centre, floated in ginger syrup. Eaten at the lantern festival and…
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Dinner
Paneer Butter Masala
Paneer in a glossy tomato and cashew gravy, finished with butter and cream. The restaurant dish people try to…
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Appetizers
Korean Corn Cheese
Sweetcorn bound with mayonnaise under a lid of grilled mozzarella. A side dish that arrives bubbling and never comes…
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Dinner
Japanese Curry Roux
Flour and butter cooked slowly to a nutty brown and spiced. Make it once and the shop-bought blocks stop being…
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Desserts
Fudge Brownies
Dense, dark and barely set in the middle, with a papery crackled top. Forty minutes, and the whole thing turns on…
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Breakfast
Fluffy Pancakes
Thick American pancakes that rise in the pan. Twenty-five minutes, and the batter must be lumpy.
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Baking
Garlic Bread
A baguette split, packed with garlic and parsley butter and baked until the edges crisp and the middle stays soft.
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Dinner
Ragù alla Bolognese
Minced beef and pork cooked three hours in milk, wine and a little tomato. Not the red mince sauce, and worth the…
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Appetizers
Tiropita
Feta and egg between layers of filo, baked until the top shatters. Cut it before it goes in the oven, not after.
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Dinner
Manti
Dumplings the size of a fingernail under garlic yoghurt and paprika butter. Eighty minutes, most of it folding.
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Dinner
Turkish Pilav
Rice and orzo cooked in butter until every grain is separate. Thirty minutes, and it goes with almost everything…
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Desserts
Tarta de Santiago
An almond cake with no flour in it, stencilled with the cross of Saint James. Fifty minutes and four ingredients.
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Baking
Flapjacks
Oats bound with butter, golden syrup and sugar, baked in a tray and cut while warm. Thirty-five minutes and…
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Quick Meals
Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Bread buttered on the outside, cheese in the middle, cooked slowly until the crust is deep gold and the inside has…
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Breakfast
Perfect Scrambled Eggs
Eggs cooked slowly with butter until they set in soft curds. Eleven minutes and there is nothing else in them.
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Breakfast
Banana Pancakes
Ripe banana mashed into pancake batter, which makes them sweeter and denser than plain ones. Twenty-five minutes.
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Lunch
Corn Chowder
Sweetcorn simmered in a thin broth with potato and finished with cream. Forty-five minutes, and the cobs go in the…
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Dinner
Loaded Baked Potato
A potato baked until the skin is crisp and the inside floury, split and filled with butter, cheese, bacon and soured…
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Baking
Makowiec
A yeasted roll wound around a thick poppy seed filling, sliced to show the spiral. Poland's Christmas cake.
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Dinner
Stroganoff Sauce
Mushrooms, mustard and soured cream reduced into a sauce for beef or anything else. Forty minutes and no beef…
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Breakfast
Syrniki
Curd cheese pancakes, crisp outside and almost custardy in the middle, eaten with soured cream and jam.
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Desserts
Brigadeiro
Condensed milk and cocoa cooked down until a spoon leaves a clean track, rolled in sprinkles. Every Brazilian…
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Desserts
Milk Tart
A pale set custard in a thin crust under a heavy dusting of cinnamon. South Africa's tea-time tart, and not a baked…
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Desserts
Mandazi
Cardamom and coconut milk in a soft fried triangle, sweet enough for morning and not much more. Kenya's doughnut.
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Dinner
Czech Dumplings
Bread dumplings steamed in a cloth roll and cut into rounds with thread. What Czech gravy is served over.
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Dinner
Moules Marinière
Mussels steamed open in white wine, shallot and parsley, in the time it takes to lay the table.
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Dinner
Stamppot
Potatoes mashed with kale or endive and a well of gravy in the middle, with sausage laid across. Fifty minutes.
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Dinner
Raggmunk
Thin potato pancakes fried in butter, with bacon and lingonberry. Sweden's Thursday, and forty minutes.
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Breakfast
Fattet Hummus
Crisp torn bread under warm chickpeas under garlicky yoghurt, finished with browned butter and pine nuts. Assembled…
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Dinner
Tawa Pulao
Cooked rice fried on a griddle with pav bhaji masala and vegetables. Twenty minutes and unmistakably Bombay.
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Appetizers
Masala Pav
Soft rolls split and griddled in butter with a spiced onion and tomato mixture pressed into them. Twenty-five minutes.
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Appetizers
Dabeli
A spiced potato filling in a buttered roll with pomegranate, roasted peanuts and sev. Gujarat's answer to the vada…
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Breakfast
Bombay Sandwich
Green chutney, sliced vegetables and butter between white bread, pressed on a griddle and buried in sev. Twenty-five…
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Baking
Pineapple Bun
A soft milk bun under a crackled sweet crust that splits into a pattern in the oven. No pineapple in it anywhere.
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Lunch
French Dip
Thin roast beef in a roll with a cup of the roasting juices to dip it in. Forty-five minutes, and the jus is the…
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Dinner
Patty Melt
A burger patty between rye bread with caramelised onion and Swiss cheese, griddled like a toastie. Thirty-five…
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Breakfast
Cheesy Grits
Coarse cornmeal cooked slowly in milk and stock until creamy, finished with butter and cheese. Thirty minutes.
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Baking
Monkey Bread
Balls of enriched dough rolled in cinnamon sugar, stacked in a ring tin and baked so they pull apart in a caramel.
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Breakfast
Tattie Scones
Mashed potato and flour rolled thin, cut into triangles and cooked on a dry griddle. Part of a Scottish fry-up.
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Baking
Barmbrack
A tea-soaked fruit loaf with a ring hidden in it, sliced and buttered. Ireland's Hallowe'en cake.
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Desserts
Black Forest Gateau
Chocolate sponge soaked in kirsch, layered with cherries and cream. The kirsch is not optional and never was.
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Appetizers
Obatzda
Ripe Camembert mashed with butter, paprika and beer into a spread for pretzels. Fifteen minutes and no cooking.
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Dinner
Pierogi Ruskie
Dumplings filled with potato and curd cheese, boiled and then fried in butter with onions. Poland's most-made dish.
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Desserts
Sernik
A dense baked cheesecake made with twaróg rather than cream cheese, which makes it drier and more interesting.
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Desserts
Medovik
Eight or nine paper-thin honey layers stacked with soured cream, left overnight until the whole thing softens into…
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Dinner
Varenyky
Ukrainian dumplings filled with sour cherries, boiled and served with soured cream and sugar. Sweet, and a main…
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Desserts
Dobos Torte
Five thin sponge layers with chocolate buttercream and a caramel disc on top, cut into wedges before it sets.
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Breakfast
Jachnun
Buttered dough stretched thin, rolled up and baked overnight until it turns dark and sweet. Yemenite Jewish Saturday…
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Appetizers
Esquites
Corn cut off the cob and fried, then dressed with mayonnaise, lime, chilli and cheese and eaten from a cup with a…
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Baking
Conchas
Sweet enriched rolls under a crisp sugar paste scored into a shell. Mexico's pan dulce, and the pattern is the name.
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