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Recipe for Lemon Cream Scones

The recipe for scones says it makes 8 scones, but the recipe says to divide the dough into 3 rounds and then cut each round into fourths (3 x 4 is 12, not 8)...

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Baking with Canadian flour

I live in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. We only have a couple of brands of all-purpose flour available. One of them is Robinhood, which I purchased last week to m...

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Recipe for Evaporated Milk

Is there a recipe so that I can make my own evaporated milk? I don't want to buy the canned kind and I once saw a recipe so that I can make it myself. Can yo...

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Substituting vanila bean for extract

I have one vanilla bean and a recipe that calls for 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract. Do I need to bite the bullet and get some vanilla extract or can I make do...

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How to find Saco Buttermilk Powder

I have been searching for a baking product I used to use a lot - Saco Powered Buttermilk. My daughter and I enjoy trying new recipes, but hesitate using ones...

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Tips on food styling

Do you know of any texts that specifically address the art of presentation of foods? As a home cook, I often find it difficult to create physically attractiv...

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Perkins Heath Bar Pie

Why has Perkins Restaurants discontinued the best pie on its menu, the Heath Bar Pie? I am very disappointed.

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Where to find grill baskets

When grilling vegetables on a barbecue grill, they frequently fall apart to some degree and then slip down onto the charcoal (or gas burners). Is there a spe...

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Freezing croissant dough

I would like to make the but 36 is too many. Can the dough be frozen, and if so, at what point in the preparation?

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Can you make Coq au Vin without wine?

Is there anything that can be substituted for wine or cooking wine? There is a recipe that I would like to try - coq au vin - and it calls for wine. So is th...

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