Stroll around Place Gambetta square in the city Bordeaux and you may notice many shops selling red boxes of spool-sized rum and vanilla pastries for which this city is famed. This is the canelé (pronounced kan-el-AY), a by-product of winemaking. Sometimes legends take precedence over history. The origin of this Bordeaux delicacy remains a mystery….
Category: Other goodies
Rogliki
A quick search in Wikipedia for this pastry reveals that almost every European language has a name for it, just look at these few examples: kifli in Hungarian kipfl in Austrian Italy Kipferl in Austrian German Hörnchen in German kifla or кифла (pl. kifle or kiflice) in Croatian, Bosnian, and Serbian кифла or kifla in…
Buckwheat Ear
Baguette-ish style crusty bread with a mild, sweet, wonderful flavour you won’t forget soon.
Vatrushka
Traditional Eastern European Tart, or Vatrushka, is a pastry made with unsweetened yeast dough. The dough is very soft and traditionally filled with cottage cheese, often mixed with raisins. When I was at school Vatrushka was one of the most popular pastries at our school canteen. Naturally, when we started to bake in Australia, I…
Pick-me-up rolls
As colourful as yummy these little rolls burst with cranberries and nuts packed inside dense texture of rye sourdough.These rolls are full of goodness given to us by Mother Nature: flours from three types of grain (wheat, rye and oat) are mixed with multiple seeds and carrots.As colourful as yummy these little rolls burst with…
Parmesan Walnut twist
Parmesan – walnut is a combination that has to be tried to be understood. The subtle bite of the aged Parmesan cheese compliments the nutty flavour of the walnuts to give this pastry a savoury taste that pairs exceptionally well with cheeses, jams or even just when eaten by itself to accompany a soup or…