Sunday, 5 May 2013

Chelsea Result

Today I achieved one of my baking ambitions:

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 I baked Chelsea Buns for the first time.  The recipe was from Dan Lepard. He is good with sweet things - and these are sweet and lemony.

One reason for trying this was a recent acquisition: a Scottish Scraper.Perfect for slicing up rolled up dough:


As you cans see from the following there was a good rise:


Another thing a Scottish Scraper is good for is slicing off strips of dough to be stretched and rolled in seeds to make breadsticks.  These have proved very popular.


On reflection the new piece of kit will be called a "chibber".
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7 comments:

  1. Mark Willis5 May 2013 at 22:29

    When I saw the title of your post, I thought it was something about a famous horticultural event held in London. The buns look nice though! Happy chibbing...

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  2. Lee5 May 2013 at 23:17

    Chibber, nice one. They look flipping great. Stomach now rumbling.

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  3. Sue Garrett6 May 2013 at 00:55

    Like Mark I was on a different Chelsea and thought your oft inspected plot had achieved a gold!

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    1. Mal6 May 2013 at 15:47

      Now that would be something!!!

      To be honest it was the football club I was thinking of as they were playing the League leaders (Man Utd) at the time I was baking those. Now I recall watching the notorious Chelsea defender of old: Chopper Harris. No I'm sticking with Chibber - and Chelsea flower show in my dreams.

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    2. Sue Garrett7 May 2013 at 01:07

      We had Norman bites your legs Hunter!

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    3. Mal13 May 2013 at 11:04

      ...and Billy Bremner!

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  4. Tanya.17 May 2013 at 02:55

    They look great Mal. I really should try to get more baking done!!

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