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What’s this Reblogging then? Trying it out

I was reminded by Misk’s great pitta post this morning of just how much I love the perfect pitta recipe from Dan Lepard which is one of the Short and Tweet challenges this week and can be found in Short and Sweet, Dan’s new book.

Turn your oven to max and bake these soon!

About Re-blogging

I am just experimenting with the reblog button here.

You need to click on one of the photos above to go to the old post and if you commented then you can read your old comments too (horrors! I am often surprised when I find my old comments on people’s posts having no memory of writing them hee hee)

 I am not convinced it adds much to the blogging process to reblog my own posts, so I probably won’t do it again but it was interesting (for me) to see how it works. I think the idea is that you do it to other people’s posts, so you showcase someone else’s work on your own blog. I am not sure that my friends would like me to do that? Do you who read this blog want to know what else I have read and found interesting in this way?  Surely it is nicer just to put a link in a relevant post. Or write an enthusiastic widget ?  This whole pinning and reblogging thing is a bit over the top, I am looking at something called Storify too, I am not sure about any of it. Anyone else got any views on this to share?

I notice it leaves out the quotation marks round the quote from Dan Lepard and it doesn’t put in the link that I embedded in the original post. Both these things are elements that should be present and I am not that impressed.

I’ll write a new post later today about something else!

Dan Lepard’s Cider Vinegar Bread Muffins

These are the best muffins I have ever tasted!

Cider Vinegar Muffin from Short & Sweet By Dan Lepard

Over the weekend I re-visited two recipes of Dan Lepard’s which I have made before on several occasions. They were being baked by the Twitter Short And Tweet group which is really gaining momentum now.

I must admit I approached the muffins with a little hesitation as when we had made them before they had always disappointed a little, tasty but very heavy and doughy, more like a crumpet inside than anything else. But, ever the optimist I thought I’d have another go. I’m really glad I did. Continue reading

Saffron Pear Almond Cake : Short & Sweet

I don’t have a lot of time to get this written up tonight so this is a speed post, half an hour flat out. I wasn’t going to bake this weekend but I found myself drawn into cake making, maybe by Mitchdafish’s delectable version of this cake here.  I scoured the garage for tinned peaches and came up with September’s home bottled pears and a tin of cherries. I checked with the others on Twitter what the drained weight of the peaches in the recipe should be, a great advantage of baking with other people even at the distance of the internet is that you can ask away and someone will say something helpful. Thinking about it afterwards, you just use what you have as the fruit goes on the top of the cake and doesn’t make a difference to the texture of the cake itself, providing you drain it, I am sure fifty grams more or less of fruit topping wouldn’t matter much.

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