The Household Daily Bread Recipe (DD’s version)
The simplest and most reliable recipe for a single loaf of white bread that we know of… baked two or three times every week since 2011.
Folklore, string structure, rye dough and Raymond Blanc (with afternotes on a bread recipe)
A Raymond Blanc recipe for “pain de campagne” causes the blogger an abrupt descent into (a) Google and (b) Welsh folklore. Warning: contains toxic behavior, nonconsensual digit amputation, and the Chorleywood Process.
Chocolata Inda
A 17th-century advertisement for the virtues of chocolate. It’s like a print-format version of a YouTubefood-supplement video. Some hustles never change…
Journey’s End: moving from Meal-Master to Paprika
If you’ve been thinking about moving your hoarded Meal-Master recipes to newer software, Paprika is just what you want. Find out more here.
Three Wild Boar Recipes
Wild Boar in Sweet and Sour Chocolate Sauce, Roast Wild Boar with Fig, Date and Walnut Stuffing, and The Wild Boar Marinade/Recipe Behind Door Number Three
Mycroft’s Delight: the cake
Double Chocolate Courvoisier Torte with Brandied Buttercream Filling and Two Icings (Brandied Nutella Frosting and Cream Cheese & White Chocolate Ganache Glaze)
Mycroft’s Delight: the fanfic
Behind every great cake, there’s a story. Here’s one from a little ways off the beaten track.
The past, buttered up
A post-WWII commercial for butter from Deutsche Molkerei (a German dairy consortium of the time) that tries to explain how many ways butter helps you be healthier. Warning: contains dancing cows and rampant off-label cholesterol usage of an intensity that would almost certainly kill you.
From Ludwig Bemelmans: the Oyster Bar Pan Roast recipe
Once upon a time, one of New York’s great seafood restaurants gave up the recipe for a signature dish to a brilliant writer. And here it is.
Not Really Hungarian Pork Chops
The seasoning’s Vaguely Hungarian… but that’s about it. Still, a good treatment for those pork chops you’ve got sitting in the fridge…