Home Baking

Jun 17 2024 92 ep. 42 mins 30
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Adventures in home baking through ingredients, culture and history. Newsletter/ website for written recipes: homebaking.substack.com Want to get in touch or even be a guest? Email me: [email protected]

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89. I Love Olive Oil

Jun 17 2024 63 mins  
In this episode Rin speaks about why olive oil is so important and fantastic; choosing the right olive oil for baking; and no less than 6 recipes using olive oil. There's an olive oil almond cake with burnt honey cream, a moussey chocolate olive oil cake (GF) and a Venetian carrot cake (GF). Then there's tender vanilla and olive oil cookies, cardamom olive oil shortbread an

88. Big, knobbly sweet breads

May 14 2024 27 mins  
This episode is inspired by brunsviger and sweet focaccia. I talk a little about each, share a base recipe then three topping ideas: dark brown sugar with cinnamon, salted honey butter and cherry and rosemary. Newsletter/website: homebaking.substack.com Email me: [email protected]

87. A baker with no oven

Apr 15 2024 41 mins  
In this episode I talk about adapting to temporarily not having an oven, responsible foraging, wild garlic scones and ricotta pancakes with berry compote (both of which can be made on the stove or in the oven!). Make sure you're subscribed: homebaking.substack.com Get in touch: [email protected]

86. Better Brownies

Mar 17 2024 30 mins  
In the second of my revisits to old topics, we're thinking about brownies. The most decadent brownies, the most balanced brownies, the most different brownies. Perfection, diversified. Written recipes: homebaking.substack.com Email: [email protected]

85. Lessons in Shortbread

Feb 11 2024 54 mins  
All the things I've gotten wrong... some things I've gotten right... and things I do differently now since episode 1. I also talk about things I've been eating recently in Iceland and London. Our featured recipes are a luxury all-butter spiced shortbread (spiced with nigella, caraway, coriander or cumin seeds) and a twice-baked pecan shortbread. <3 NEWSLETTER: homeb

84. Things that taste like donuts

Dec 04 2023 51 mins  
...and some actual donuts! In this episode we're looking back on the best bakes of 2023 and talking about 3 donut or donut-adjacent things: a giant donut bundt cake, apple donut bites and West African puff puffs. Then we look forward into 2024 and what's on my to-bake list then and over the festive period. Wishing you very happy holidays and a happy new year! Rin x homeb

83. Lemon + Pastry = Magic?

Oct 30 2023 31 mins  
In this episode I try my hand at lemon shortbread (for the purposes of this episode I am counting shortbread as pastry), lemon bars, lemon meringue pie and lemon shaker pie!! Some trials and tribulations happened as well as some major successes - listen to find out what and why! Recipes and notes: homebaking.substack.com Email me: [email protected] Next ep: Donuts!

82. Milky and tart set puddings, plus all-about Ammardeen

Oct 01 2023 36 mins  
This week we're talking about a delicious lime posset (creamy set pudding from England) and a light milk pudding from the middle East called muhallabieh. Plus we'll deep-dive into a special ingredient from Syria and Lebanon: an apricot fruit leather called ammardeen. Read and subscribe to the newsletter: homebaking.substack.com Email me: [email protected] Pleas

81. Granita and brioche, a perfect breakfast

Sep 11 2023 54 mins  
In this episode I talk about my summer of eating, how granita is served in Sicily and then four recipes - feel free to mix and match or come up with your own combinations... I made concord grape granita and served with very vanilla buns and I made cocoa granita and served with whipped heavy cream and plum butter buns... Recipes: homebaking.substack.com Get in touch: flourbutteregg

80. Ice Cream Sandwiches!

Aug 13 2023 52 mins  
4 wonderful recipes to make 2 ice cream sandwiches: raspberry sorbet with corn cookies; chocolatey cookies with mint choc chip ice cream. Plus a love letter to the combination of peppermint and dark chocolate, a personal trauma involving biting down too hard on a frozen cookie... and we answer the question 'What do British royal equestrians in the 1970s have to do with mint cho