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Grandma's Apple Brown Betty (Apple Crumble?) and a Year-End Review

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It's been... quite a year. Has it felt that way for you too?  It seems like everyone I know is chugging along chanting the same mantra: "let's just get this year over with!" Of course, I think we've done this the last few years, and the New Year has yet to bring something significantly better, but hope springs eternal, right? And I have the most comforting dish for you today for those days when hope betrays your trust. Sometimes after a break on the blog, I wonder if it's worth addressing that I've been gone. My statistics don't show that I have a lot of regular readers, and direct feedback suggests that my only readers are my close friends and family who already know what's been going on with me (and I suspect a lot of them, as much as I love them, quickly scroll through and give it a  consolation like while thinking "tl;dr"). In getting this post ready, I've been beautifully surprised at how many apparently random views I'v...
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Happy Valentine's Day, my dear readers! I love you all very much and hope you have a beautiful day, whether you're celebrating or not. As promised last time, I'm going to be making Mary Berry's Tiramisu Cake, featured in Dessert week of Series 5, which aired in the United States as Season 1 on PBS or can be found on Netflix US as Collection 1. It was a lovely episode that made me want to eat all the things (okay, all  the episodes of Great British Baking Show make me want to eat all the things, but you get my drift). The tiramisu cake was also featured in the Masterclass season that went with this, available on Netflix as Great British Baking Show Masterclass: Season 1, Epsiode 2, where you can see Mary Berry make it herself. I know it seems like we just did a cake recipe, since the Victoria Sandwich was only about a month ago, but tiramisu is such a beautiful, romantic dessert that I thought it would be nice to go around Valentine's Day. And since Valentine...
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GBBO Translation: Mary Berry's Fraisier Cake

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I've lost track of how many times I've rewritten this introduction paragraph because I just haven't gotten my ducks in a row and published it. I baked this back in March for my husband's birthday, and it was a hit. And now that it's summer, strawberries are in season and this cool refreshing dessert is a beautiful, refreshing, and delicious treat for you to try for yourself. The Fraisier cake was a technical challenge featured in the same season of Great British Bake Off/Baking Show as the doughnuts that I made previously. It appeared on week 9, patisserie, of series 3, available on PBS as season 5 and on Netflix as Great British Baking Show: The beginnings. This recipe is also featured in a Masterclass episode, also available on Netflix. Because the cake is from week 9, or the semifinal , it is probably going to be quite a bit more difficult than the bakes I've done so far. It also features crème pâtissière, which I have never made before. We might end...
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