Making the Best Mid-Autumn Recipe - Mooncakes
Mid Autumn Festival Moon Cake

Making the Best Mid-Autumn Recipe – Mooncakes

- by Lucas Miller

For weeks leading up to the Mid-Autumn festival every year, mooncakes and festival snacks abound. Many of these products were produced weeks ago and imported from places across the globe. If you’re living in the United States, finding fresh products to celebrate this year’s Mid-Autumn festival can be very difficult. Whether you’re celebrating with family and friends, or just looking for some good, traditional Chinese fare, stick around for some Mid-Autumn recipes and tips.

Making the Best Mid-Autumn Recipe - Mooncakes

Background

Traditionally celebrated on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese calendar, the Mid-Autumn Festival is a major holiday across China, Taiwan, and Vietnam and is rife with traditions and history. As could be expected, food plays a major role in this autumn holiday.

Traditional Foods

One of the most visible and traditional Mid-Autumn recipes on display is often the mooncake. While many varieties exist, traditional mooncakes have a soft outside crust with …

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The Four Favorite Delicious Gourmet Cakes
Carrot Cake

The Four Favorite Delicious Gourmet Cakes

- by Lucas Miller

Cakes are one of the favorite desserts of people of all ages. It is always present in various kinds of gatherings. Some cakes are traditionally eaten on special occasions such as at Christmas Eve. Others can be eaten with different toppings and are available in a variety of forms.

The Four Favorite Delicious Gourmet Cakes

Some delicious gourmet cakes:

The Carrot Cake

Carrot could be the primary ingredient of a carrot cake and consists of huge amounts of sugar like sugar beets. It was used throughout the medieval age as a sweet ingredient within the sweet cake. The carrot cake is usually a sweet gourmet cake ready by way of the mixture of grated carrot and butter. The course of action of cooking outcomes in soft carrot, also as the cake, was a dense and soft texture. The carrots themselves strengthen and add to the look, texture, and flavor on the cake.

You could add ingredients …

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Enjoying a Fruit Cake the Whole Year Round
Fruit Cake

Enjoying a Fruit Cake the Whole Year Round

- by Lucas Miller

Most people would think that a fruit cake is only available during the Christmas season. However, anyone can enjoy a slice of this unique cake any time of the year, so if you can’t wait for the holidays to experience the richness of a fruit cake then you’ll be glad that you can get it anytime you wish.

A fruit cake is normally made with dried fruits and nuts that are soaked in either brandy or rum for a couple of days before adding them to the cake mixture. As you can see, the process of making a fruit cake is longer and more tedious than making other cakes, and if you don’t have the patience then perhaps you should stick to the ready-made cakes that can be purchased in pastry and cake shops. For other people though, nothing beats the taste of a tasty, home-made fruit cake.

Enjoying a Fruit Cake the Whole Year Round

The fruitcake …

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An Overview of Fruit Cake
Fruit Cake

An Overview of Fruit Cake

- by Lucas Miller

Whether you love it or hate it, fruit cake is a tradition everywhere. There are several different versions of the confection, but they are all still similar.

Fruit cake can be traced back as early as ancient Rome where it was made with barley, pine nuts, pomegranate seeds, and raisins. Through the Middle Ages is when the name fruit cake was coined and this is when the use of fruits that had been preserved started. This was the time when these pastries spread rapidly and many different variations of the recipe started coming about.

An Overview of Fruit Cake

This treat is now made in multiple countries from the Bahamas where they soak absolutely everything in rum to Canada where it is almost only a Christmas time treat. In Germany, it is also a Christmas time confection. Italy calls their Panforte and it has a rather strong flavor to it. In Romania, they serve this …

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3 Things to Expect on a Culinary Vacation
Foods & Culinary

3 Things to Expect on a Culinary Vacation

- by Lucas Miller

Going on vacation is a welcome break from day to day life. Going on a culinary vacation offers that break as well as the opportunity to immerse yourself into the cultural aspects of the region you are visiting with an experienced guide. A culinary vacation tuscany, for example, gives participants the opportunity to taste, pick and cook with the local ingredients that make up some of the most tasty and well-known dishes of Umbria.

3 Things to Expect on a Culinary Vacation

Here are three things to expect while on a culinary vacation.

What is Included?

Every culinary trip is a little different from the next, but for the most part, the trip will include lodging, meals and cooking classes as well as transportation throughout the trip. Before you leave your deposit for the trip, if you have any doubts or questions about what is included, be sure to ask. Some trip organizers are specific about the …

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