Author: Paul Ashton

Baking

2. Baking Your First Loaf

Baking Your First Loaf This recipe is designed for absolute beginners. Take your time and follow each step. You don’t need a mixer—just your hands

Baking

3. Three Ways To Make Dough

Three Ways To Make Bread Dough By hand Weigh the flour into the bowl Put the yeast on one side. Put salt, sugar separately on

St Martin’s Weckmann cookies

Across the German-speaking world, this cheerful little bread figure appears under many names and on slightly different feast days. Whether he’s called Weckmann, Stutenkerl, or

Vegan speculaas

Makes: about 25 biscuits Prep time: 15 minutes (+ chilling 1–2 hours) Bake time: 12–15 minutes

Baking

Vegan peperkoek

Makes: 1 loaf Prep time: 10 minutes Bake time: 50–60 minutes

Spek

Spek This first recipe is for marzipan spek. Technically you can also make the the pink and yellow mallow spek but I think it is

The Dutch abroad – Sinterclaas

The Dutch abroad – Sinterclaas Preparing for Sinterklaas – Keeping Dutch Traditions Alive For Dutch families living abroad, early December always brings a hint of

Taai-taai

Taai-taai Taai-taai (literally “chewy-chewy”) is a Dutch treat baked for Sinterklaasavond — St Nicholas’ Eve on the 5th of December. The name refers to its

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