Making the world a little sweeter one pastry tip at at time.
Flipping through the September/October’s issue of Hotel Dining, the supplement to HOTELS and Plate magazines, I read about a tea sommelier. Tea Sommelier? We all know that traditional wine sommeliers are experts in the field of wine, so why not have a tea sommelier to assist guests in …read more
Always looking for something new as an ingredient for desserts, I spotted this liqueur. It’s a vodka-based cream liqueur, and the makers are touting it as an adult version of the classic treat – chocolate milk. Instead of the usual Irish cream or the heather honey …read more
If you’ve ever wanted a coffee plantation to call your own, Schneider Industries has two working coffee plantations for auction.
The first property is located in La Liberdad, San Salvador, and it is a complete coffee plantation set on just over ten acres. The second is located in Sonsonate, El Salvador, and is also a complete coffee plantation set on 59 acres. What makes them complete coffee plantations? Property real estate itself as well as all buildings, homes, and equipment are all up for sale.
Both properties details can be viewed online via documents that can be downloaded and viewed, with maps and photos of the buildings. The La Liberdad location has a .doc Word document (in Spanish), and the one located in Sonsonate has a .pdf document (in Spanish).
Auction: The Corner Ice Cream Shoppe This auction is conducted by Bob King Auctions, and includes many frozen dessert equipment pieces, such as display cases and mixers. If you have cash on hand for the items you want, there is a 2% discount for payment …read more
Presented by Boston After Six, the Boston Pastry Rendezvous happens on November 2, 6-11PM at the Back Bay Events Center. Sample pastries and start the holiday shopping sweetly. Tickets are 35.00 at Eventbrite, but for a limited time they are available at 43% off (20.00 …read more
Think angel food cake is a recent invention? Well, you’d be thinking wrong. Angel food cake has been around a very long time, and the author of The American Pastry Cook, Jessup Whitehead, who goes into detail about its origins way back in 1894, and makes you appreciate this gem of a cake.
Read more about the history of Angel Food Cake from my Old School Pastry blog.
Celebrate it by making a dessert! What is a dessert? Basically, anything that you serve at the end of the meal. It could be baked, frozen, fresh, or warmed. It could also be something not even remotely sweet, like different cheeses, or even nuts and …read more