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Questions
Freezing Scones
Can a cheese scone dough be made and put in the fridge overnight?
12 inch Square Wedding Cake
Delia's Classic Christmas cake recipe.
I've made this cake many times in various sizes, all very successfully, however, I've now been asked to make a 12" square wedding cake, which I have never made. Your recipe conversion chart only goes up to 10". As it is such an important cake can you upscale the ingredients for me or tell me the percentage increase I need from Delia's original recipe in her Christmas book.
Thank you in advance :)
Madeira Swap
Hello Lindsey
Hope you are well. Loving the new look site. Great easy to use layout.
May I ask a question please - I am making Delia's Oven Baked Mushroom Risotto tomorrow night. However, I forgot to buy the dry madeira! Can I substitute it with Marsala? Or do you think I should top if up with just warm water?
Thank you very much
Best wishes
Toad in the Hole x
ps the video is really helpful.
Power Cut!
Hi Lindsey,
Hope all's well with you this fine Saturday morning.
We've just had a 20 minute power outage and I had some ginger biscuits that had been put in about five minutes previously. I left them in and they had turned golden with the residual heat but were still a bit soft so they are now having 10 minutes to cook them properly.
It leads me to ask what is the best thing to do if I'd had meat in the oven, leave it in and hope the power returns quickly or take it out and chill it or are neither of these options good if it's meat?
Enjoy the weekend
Keeping risotto warm
Is it going to be OK to leave it a bit longer while I serve and eat our starter? Say 10-12 minutes?
Shortcrust Pastry
Hi Lindsey,
Delia's shortcrust pastry is made with butter and lard, can the lard be changed for Trex or just all butter.
Look forward to hearing from you.
Linda