Tins and baking
Cake tin: cast aluminium, pressed steel or silicone. Which one lasts for years
Silicone does not brown, thin steel warps, cast aluminium is heavy. We tell you which one is worth it depending...
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Guides and recipes
How to choose, care for and get the most out of what you buy
Short guides on teak, olive and acacia, baking tins and ironing. And recipes to put it all to use.
Recipes
Red velvet cake
Deep red, a hint of cocoa and a crumb as soft as velvet. The cake for days when there's something...
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Recipes
Classic butter and vanilla cake
Butter, sugar, eggs, flour and vanilla. The teatime cake we grew up with, with quantities for any of our moulds.
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Recipes
Lemon and thyme olive oil cake
Lemon, fresh thyme and mild olive oil. A cake that smells of the Mediterranean, with an icing that runs down...
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Recipes
Banana cake with a cinnamon and hazelnut heart
Very ripe bananas, brown butter and a cinnamon and hazelnut heart you only discover when you cut the first slice.
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Recipes
Moist one-bowl chocolate cake
Twenty minutes, one bowl and a batter that looks like chocolate soup. That's how you get the moistest chocolate cake...
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Ironing and home
Ironing without shine marks: the temperature table by fabric
Shine marks are not a stain: they are the fibre flattened, reflecting the light. And it is almost always too...
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Tins and baking
How to care for your pans' non-stick coating (and make it last years)
A non-stick pan doesn't wear out with use. It gets damaged by four specific things, and all four can be...
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Cutting boards
End Grain boards: why they don't blunt your knives
End Grain is not a wood, it is a way of building the board. And it is the only one...
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Tins and baking
Capacities and equivalents: adapt any recipe to your cake pan
The recipe was written for another pan. Here is the table and the conversion so it turns out just as...
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Cutting boards
Your board has cracked, warped or smells: how to save it
Before you throw it out: almost everything that happens to a wooden board can be fixed at home, without any...
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Ironing and home
How to keep bread fresh for longer (and why the fridge is the worst place)
Bread does not dry out: the starch recrystallises. And that reaction runs fastest at exactly your fridge temperature.
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