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Ametilles Garapinyades, or sugared almonds

July 24, 2010 Food & drink
Frank Camorra's sugared almonds

The list of ingredients here is impressively short, but the technique is fiendishly difficult and needs a lot of concentration, good timing and, inevitably, a few botched attempts before you get it right. It’s worth persevering, though. Almonds coated in a crust of crystallised sugar? What could be better than that? Put 155g of almonds [...]

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Alfajores, Spanish spiced fruit and nut biscuits

July 21, 2010 Food & drink
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The coincidence of a week in Barcelona and a publisher sending me a copy of Frank Camorra’s staggering Movida Rustica cookbook has left me cooking a lot of Spanish food. I make no apologies for this, but warn that it may continue for a while yet. Movida Rustica is three hundred and sixty-eight pages long.  [...]

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Crunchy peanut butter biscuits

March 11, 2009 Food & drink
Nigel Slater's crunchy peanut butter biscuits

We were supposed to be outside digging over the allotment on Monday, but as the weather took a turn for the Siberian, we decided to give it a miss. The broad bean seeds will have to wait until next week. There were biscuits to make instead, peanut butter ones.I detest peanut butter. I think it’s [...]

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