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Desserts

Dessert Day

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The 14th of October is Dessert Day. It is a red-letter day for all the sweet-toothed people amongst us.

Ice Cream

Ice cream is a frozen sweet dish, based on a custard. The most popular flavour is vanilla, followed by chocolate. The most common defect in ice cream is the development of ice crystals in it. The answer on how to prevent this is easy: avoid any temperature fluctuations whatsoever. This, though, is far easier said…

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Lemon Curd

Lemon Curd © Denzil Green Lemon Curd is made of sugar (you don’t want to know how much), butter, eggs, and lemon juice and zest. It’s almost like Lemon Pie Filling, except because it doesn’t use a powdered thickener such as cornstarch, it is less jelly-like. It is thick and spreadable, and a light to…

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Mochi

Mochi are sticky, chewy Japanese cakes made from pounded, steamed sticky rice (or from sticky rice flour called “Mochiko”, aka Sweet Rice Flour.) They can be savoury or sweet, and may be flavoured. Without any flavouring, they are just bland, rubbery balls. Sweet flavourings include honey, sweet bean paste, and fried banana. More savoury or…

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