Hi.....in mid-April we have a flat very close to the Old Street Tube. I’ve read some of the other posts and have copied the places recommended near Spitafields and some near the Angel Tube....I am looking for...

Searching for a good veggie korma recipe today, I came across this lovely Indian lady who is cookin' up Indian staples on YouTube. I am a bit intimidated by Indian cooking and disappointed in the lack of PBS and Food Network...

Can anyone recommend a good pastry and coffee place in London in Kensington (near the Kensington Hilton would be ideal)? Many thanks.

Recently in Rome I fell in love with a little Italian pastry (which since I generally don’t have a very high opinion of Italian pastry, was a pleasant surprise). I never managed to write down the name, although I remember...

shortbread is pastry-like, it’s not the same as pastry. If you want a particularly cookie-like crust (like pate sucre) this works really well. For a more tender crust and less crisp/flaky/breaky, I think working it in with...

My husband, daughter and I will be in Paris the week of Thanksgiving. I have found lots of lists of great bakeries and pastry shops—which we will check out. Once we get there, what specific pastries should we sample? Last...

it appears to be a fried pastry, made of either a yeasted dough or pate choux, forced through a pastry tube ina round or circular shape, deep fried and filled with a vanilla pastry cream, often dusted with sugar or...

Hello everyone :) Just wondering if there’s a difference between cake flour and pastry flour... I wanted to bake my friend a cake for her birthday and found a chocolate cake recipe that asked for cake flour. Well I went to...

Video purports to teach the ham-handed to make an elementary wedding cake.

A pound cake recipe that I want to try says to pour the batter into two 6-inch tube pans. First, what’s a tube pan? Second, could I just use a regular 9" cake pan instead?

Try adding some grated parmesan and dillweed to the dough, then stuff with a smoked salmon/cream cheese mixture, using a pastry tube and plain tip.

Bonjour Capt! Sorry for the delay in responding to your request. One of the best Paris boulangeries is in the rue de Belleville. Called Desfoux, it is between the tube subway stations Jourdain and Pyrenees. While you’re there,...

Rodman’s on Wisconsin has it in the baking goods section— Odense brand in the tubes and one brand in a can. Rodman’s is a couple of blocks south of the Friendship Heights station Jenifer street exit. They may...

. Then the Cannoli alla Siciliana kicked it up a notch. Fresh-filled to order with barely sweetened cow’s milk ricotta studded with orange and lemon peel candied in-house, the pastry tubes were ultra-crackly and flaky. One...

ideas! (Bonus: anyone who can recommend a place to find mashed potatoes squirted from a pastry tube on the edge of a plate, and then top-browned in an oven, a la Scandia, will receive our enternal gratitude...)