Monday, January 25, 2010

Puff Pastry: Day 1

We have finally embarked on our Puff Pastry journey. So far, so good. We have already overcome our two main obstacles: no pastry scraper and no marble slab. Instead we are just chilling our pastry a lot and using a metal spatula to scrape when needed. Today we managed to make it through our second turn, and will complete the process throughout the week, ending on Friday, using our final Puff Pastry to make Napoleons. Keep your fingers crossed that this will work!!

Since our Puff Pastry will not show results today, we decided to make biscotti using a base recipe from Baking Illustrated, which we modified to fit our desires. The recipe was one for Orange - Almond Biscotti, which we changed to Lemon-Almond biscotti. We simply substituted the zest of a lemon for the zest of an orange to make the change. The result: a lovely, lemony biscuit.

Tea anyone?

K & G

2 comments:

  1. Oh, I want to taste the biscotti! And where are the pictures to visualize these lovely results?

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  2. I'd love to join you for tea...be right over!

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