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Julia’s Pantry: Mustard Sauce Recipe

Today we thought that we would explore sauces with this great mustard sauce recipe. “Sauces are the splendor and the glory of French cooking” – so ...
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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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La Fête de la Gastronomie

Gastronomy – the art and practice of choosing, preparing and eating good food, has been taken seriously in France at all levels of society for ...
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Julia’s Pantry: French scones

I decided to make scones but can never find self-raising flour in the supermarkets in France.  I looked in my mother’s ancient, handed down, recipe ...
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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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Food Life France: Julia’s Pantry!

The Good Life France is thrilled to introduce guest food writer Julia. Julia has had a lifelong love of cooking and in particular baking cakes. ...
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French Vineyard Achieves Living National Historic Monument Status

A vineyard in South West France has become the first living thing to achieve the high recognition of “national historic monument” and has been officially ...
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Steve Skews, owner of Le Brewery

Le Brewery Normandy | Interview with The English Norman Conqueror

Le Brewery Normandy: an Englishman in France has hit the headlines worldwide when the news of his desire to consider selling Le Brewery in Normandy ...
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Le Brewery, Normandy, The Good Life France

Le Brewery Normandy | The English Norman Conqueror

  When Steve and Jane Skews, two Brits who live and work in Normandy, France, told a newspaper reporter that they were thinking of selling ...
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