• Usual Food
  • Fruit in syrup

    There are many ways to preserve fruit. You can either freeze, dry or can it. Another option is to prepare candied fruit, or alternatively store fruit in syrup. With syrup we have to be more careful as with the candied fruit, since it contains more water and can thus be spoiled more easily. In general, […]

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  • Dried fruit pudding

    While reading this excellent book – How to feed a dictator – I came upon an interesting recipe for a dried fruit pudding. It immediately caught my attention, with the sentence that it tastes like cake, wine and nuts all at the same time. And dried fruit mixed with wine always promises a delicacy. As […]

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  • Sweet date spread

    I definitely adore sweet spreads. The classic Nutella, its wonderful variations or just simple honey and its even more gorgeous mixes are my daily sweets. I must confess, I usually eat them right off the spoon instead of spreading them on a slice of bread. Why dilute a wonderful spread? It is already perfect as […]

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  • Potato baking

    Baking potatoes is a fairly straightforward thing. One simply peels the potatoes, puts them in an oven and bakes them.  Well, it’s not that simple. As always, there are many tastes, but most people prefer crispy baked potatoes. They should have crunchy skin and soft insides. Naturally, the net is full of more or less […]

  • Unusual Food
  • Pumpkin (squash) bread

    After experiments with bark bread, resin bread and lichen bread, there were some suggestions to try something more palatable. An article about pumpkin history gave me the idea that dried pumpkins could be an excellent substance for bread dough. People have been drying pumpkins for millenia, so it should not be that complicated. And dried […]