Baking and Books discussion

Okay so for the Alt challenge this month, make something that has one step where you need to cook something on the stove.

Some examples are an item that includes pastry cream (since that needs to be cooked separately), you might need to cook down onions or other items for a savory tart, a cake that is soaked in a simple syrup (again since you'd need to heat the sugar and water for the syrup).

If this is too obscure and people don't understand let me know!

Any ideas as to what you are going to make?

Hmm...I might have another go at fudge (there is a parsnip version in RV&CH!). It's always defeated me before...I like it very very smooth and creamy, like Jersey cream fudge, more like a very soft toffee I guess. But it comes out rather gritty and crystallised. My OH loves it like that, so it's never a waste, but wah, I want it the way *I* want it!

Yep got this covered as well... made a bechamel sauce for the second pizza I baked.

I've made two types of ginger biscuits which both have a melting step, and a Clementine Cake (from Nigella Lawson's How To Eat) which involved boiling clementines for a couple of hours! That was nice but a bit wet in texture.

Thinking I might have a go at Turkish Delight, actually, never made that before.

Seawood wrote: "I've made two types of ginger biscuits which both have a melting step, and a Clementine Cake (from Nigella Lawson's How To Eat) which involved boiling clementines for a couple of hours! That was ni..."

Wow..you've been busy!

lol, that was just this week...I tend to make my own biscuits rather than buy them (other than chocolate oatcakes, which I love), littlest girl wanted to do rolling-out-and-cutting-shapes biscuits one rainy afternoon, and I was trialling a cake for NYE. It's my job to bring cake but someone else has called dibs on chocolate so I have to look for something light and fruity...the Clementine Cake was not it, sadly.