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Julia’s Pantry: Gâteau à l’orange – Orange Cake

I recently needed to make a cake – something quick and easy but delicious and pretty too. I was off to a Clandestine Cake Bake ...
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Julia’s Pantry: Les gâteaux de papillon – Butterfly Cakes

Bonjour! Although I’d planned a rest for half-term recently, whilst in a local supermarché I bought some “Farine au Gateaux” … Self-Raising Flour. My daughter ...
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Biscuits a Poudre de Creme Anglais

Julia’s Pantry: Biscuits à Poudre de crème Anglaise – Custard Powder Biscuits

Julia’s Pantry Melting Moments… authentic, unusual and easy recipe for delicious little biscuits. These are fabulous little bites to serve with coffee after dinner or ...
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Pain de Ovomaltine, Ovaltine Loaf, Julia's Pantry, The Good Life France

Julia’s Pantry: Pain d’Ovomaltine – Ovaltine Loaf

In 1904, a Swiss chemist, Dr George Wander, tried to combine barley malt with some other nutritious ingredients including milk, egg and cocoa. The result ...
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Julia’s Pantry: Old English Fruit Scones

This is an easy and traditional English recipe which calls for self-raising flour as well as baking powder but if you can only get plain ...
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Julia’s Pantry: Chocolate scones

For the chocolate shavings in the recipe I  used good quality dark chocolate, but use what suits you best – perhaps a mixture of dark and ...
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Sablé Biscuit recipe

The lovely sablé biscuit recipe is very simple and the little biscuits are just perfect with your tea and coffee. The simplicity of the little ...
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French Macaroons

What could be more delightful than delicious little French Macaroons or macarons as they are called in France? The actual preparation is not difficult but ...
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Champagne Cupcakes

Champagne Cupcakes

Champagne cupcakes! Just the name of them sounds fancy doesn’t it?  They are actually very easy to make but you can make them look really ...
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Little Ladies Legs cake

These donuts from Alsace are not the sprinkled and rainbow coloured sort you get in American donut stores. The word beignet, French for donut, dates ...
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