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Back in World War II, two Canadian officers were staying at a hotel in the northeast of England, where they gave a recipe for a pudding to the owner of the hotel; and it makes sense what they tell us that its origin is not English but Canadian, since the dough is more similar to that of an American muffin than to that of a delicate English sponge cake. I'm talking about the delicious sticky toffee pudding.

You will not think that the pressure cooker is designed to steam vegetables only, right? Because very far from it, the pressure cooker allows you to make meats that are tender and wonderful in record time, it allows you to make stews with a fabulous amalgamation of flavors, you can make the healthiest steamed fish, you can make delicious biscuits ( yes, in a steamer pot some great biscuits come out!) and you can also make delicious flans like the one we bring you today, the coconut flan recipe. Among many other things, of course.

Coca de forner or baker is a flat and elongated bread very typical in Catalonia that was originally prepared with unenriched bread dough, painted with olive oil, garnished with pine nuts and sugar on top and sprinkled with anise when it came out. from the oven. Simple and very effective.

Do you know that homemade cookies can last even a month in perfect condition if you keep them well? That as long as you don't get distracted and the little ones (or some older child in the house... Ehem!) don't play the little mouse and eat them first.

Baking cookies is one of my favorite pleasures. It is easy and it is also fast, since both the dough requires very little mixing and the baking takes little time (about 15 minutes). The kids also enjoy it, you make sure you eat quality ingredients and, if you make them in quantity, you have reservations for days.

Days are approaching when our kitchen will be at full capacity and, it is one of those moments, in which knowing a simple recipe that solves a Christmas dessert or breakfast for us is received with open arms.

Are you thinking about the Christmas menu? Well, these cheese and grape tartlets with Pedro Ximénez sauce are an excellent appetizer: they are easy and the combination of flavors of all the cheeses is sensational.

I don't know about you, but I can't think of a better combination than chocolate with nuts. And if we add a good homemade dough base to this mixture, which is already delicious, then we have... the best chocolate, walnut and shortcrust pastry cake in the world!

With this chocolate and egg yolk bundt cake, we open the oven season and delicious biscuits at home. Bundts are something that children are passionate about, because they are amazed at their shape and silhouette and a way to look amazing if you are going to give them away or if you have guests at home.

Don't you love easy and lucid recipes that make us look like authentic kitchen professionals with very little effort? Me. I adore them. Every recipe that is minimum effort and maximum brilliance goes straight to the sack and to be tested. And, if I like it, it is incorporated into my recipe book ipso facto . This is the recipe for the ruffle milk pie, wrinkled milk cake or galatopita. The latter is the original name of the creature, of Greek origin, which is to put a floor on it.

We are in autumn, and it is time for chestnuts, sweet potatoes and pumpkins; It seems that you are starting to feel like baking cakes, pies, biscuits and tarts with apples and pears. In a way, we feel like turning on the oven to impregnate our house with those intoxicating aromas of butter, cinnamon and sugar. If only we could keep that smell in a glass jar and open it from time to time!

These butter cookies are made with our churrera, how do you like them? A churrera is much like a cookie gun in how it works: a tube with a plunger that pushes the dough through a die. A little force and little mystery.

Today I bring you a basic lemon cake recipe, one of those essentials in your recipe book. It is a sponge cake and spongy and full of lemon juice flavor. Made with a few simple ingredients, it is a cake that is very easy to prepare but one of those recipes that everyone likes.