Tag: Baking soda
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Hokey Pokey: New Zealand’s Best Kept Secret
Candy surprise from Down-Under I had forgotten all about hokey pokey until recently when we went down to visit my family in New Zealand. Suddenly I saw it everywhere: in ice-cream, in biscuits, in chocolate and even by itself. It’s New Zealand’s best kept secret (or maybe second best, after the fact that…
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Mrs Rawnsley’s Sponge Cake
Discovering history through an old recipe book Who is Mrs Rawnsley? Where did she get this recipe for sponge cake from? Did she make it up herself? Did she get it from a friend or a neighbour? These are questions that I’d love to have the answer to, but unless one of Mrs…
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Snickerdoodles: The Great American Cookie
What is a snickerdoodle anyway? I spent a few years living in California, which is where I was introduced to these fabulous cookies called snickerdoodles. When I first heard the name “snickerdoodle”, I thought it was another one of those strange poodle crosses, like the labradoodle (now, who wouldn’t want one of those?!). In…
