BVC Cooks: UK vs US Plum Pudding—but it has no plums. For special holidays my mother used to make her English grandmother’s recipe for plum pudding. Who knows how old this dish was, or even this formula for it. But … Continue reading
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by Brenda W. Clough A few weeks ago, I posted a link to the Ultimate British Muffin. Clearly a bake test was called for. I armed myself with some ‘strong’ flour (if they cannot raise high-gluten wheat in Britain then … Continue reading
by Brenda W. Clough One of the great divides between the UK and the US is class. Americans are much less class-conscious. We divide ourselves by money instead. The markers in the UK are almost infinite — speech, clothing, education, … Continue reading
by Brenda W. Clough This recipe comes from the English TV show The Great British Bake-Off, and must therefore be deemed utterly authentic. It is in fact a great deal like the Thomas’s English muffin — a yeast dough, with … Continue reading