1. 23:59 19th Jun 2009

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    Day 15: Blueberry Shortcake If cooking is playing with science, baking is the field of chemistry. The addition of one additional ingredient can drastically alter the composition of a baked dish. Utilizing too much flour for kneading can result in horrible disfigurement to the dough you have been working on. It is a place of absolutes and hard rules that you don’t break ever. Because you’re playing with Mother Nature and when you make her mad bad things happen. Here we have what in the America would be referred to as a type of biscuit (different from the European conception). The primary defining feature of foods referred to as biscuits or baked in the method of one is adding solid fat (better, shortening, or lard are the most common.) Biscuits include scones, cobblers, dumplings, and the current example shortbread. Here it’s made into a decadently sweet desert when topped with a blueberry mixture along with whipped cream. The raspberry gelato adds further to the whole “fruits of the forest” vibe.

    Day 15: Blueberry Shortcake

    If cooking is playing with science, baking is the field of chemistry. The addition of one additional ingredient can drastically alter the composition of a baked dish. Utilizing too much flour for kneading can result in horrible disfigurement to the dough you have been working on. It is a place of absolutes and hard rules that you don’t break ever. Because you’re playing with Mother Nature and when you make her mad bad things happen.

    Here we have what in the America would be referred to as a type of biscuit (different from the European conception). The primary defining feature of foods referred to as biscuits or baked in the method of one is adding solid fat (better, shortening, or lard are the most common.) Biscuits include scones, cobblers, dumplings, and the current example shortbread.

    Here it’s made into a decadently sweet desert when topped with a blueberry mixture along with whipped cream. The raspberry gelato adds further to the whole “fruits of the forest” vibe.