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I heard about this tip when I attended a Bakery Summit at Word Trade Center. I was not writing for this blog back then so details like when and source person were not important. The summit had exhibits and seminars. One of the staffs of bakery supplies spoke for the seminar. He gave some tips [...]
Mother’s breastmilk is not sweet. The newborn infant formula is not sweet either. Most of the infant formula up to six months of baby’s age are not sweet. The first set of foods for six months old babies are not sweet. Plain biscuits, mashed potato, carrot and squash. In case no sweets will be introduced, [...]
My sense of taste is not meant for bitter tasting food. The reason why I had a hard time appreciating ampalaya on dining table. I had a hard time appreciating suha as well. Dalandan, a small relative of suha can be eaten by removing the peels with bare hands. Sucking the flesh. Then spitting out [...]
For me, star margarine is an excellent bread spread. Apply a moderate coat on bread loaf and sprinkle some sugar. The mix of margarine salty taste and sweetness of sugar is perfect. I will refuse consecutive servings of peanut and mayonnaise sandwich but never do it against margarine sandwich. Another popular use of margarine is [...]
Try scouting some cheddar cheeses on grocery shelf. Read the ingredient listing and count each. You will find out that most of them have five or more raw materials. Guess what? Majority of the ingredients are not really needed. Cheese manufacture starts from cow. The cow produce good quality milk for cheese production. Then a [...]
The tea below is salabat. You might not believed cause the color is different. Color of salabat tea should be transparent to slightly cloudy. The tea is a mixture of ordinary ginger and turmeric, luyang dilaw. The image below is the powder before pouring hot water. I cannot sensed any special flavor though. My better [...]
Sugar usually come in crystal form. Wait, It is not usual. It is crystal most of the time. It is used to sweetened coffee, milk, tea, and thousand of mouthwatering foods. For food preparations, crystal sugar can be mixed directly to other ingredients. Or it can be converted to syrup beforehand. There are cases which [...]
