I have always admired people who can bake. It isn't like cooking where you can just whack stuff together. Baking drills a certain discipline into you, teaches a cook how to follow orders when the urge is to do otherwise. No wonder some of the best chefs in the world train as pastry chefs at some point in their career.
Now, I knew baking wasn't easy, yet so easily forgot. A disastrous attempt at making puff pastry sent me crashing down to earth this evening. I knew the ingredients I had weren't perfect. To begin with, I only had plain flour as opposed to strong flour, and I was a little short on butter. Though I did not expect fireworks to begin with, I was horrified at how different the pastry was to anything remotely like puff pastry. It sure was nothing like how I had imagined it.
Not saying that it's time to put away the butcher's knife and bring out the oven mitts, but most certainly time to give the cake tins a little attention.
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