Enticing Aromas Food Food Geoffrey Smeddle On Baking Power

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TASTE will always be my top consideration with food, but running at a close second comes fragrance. Certain aromas can instantly cause hunger, desire and even greed. I smell a roasting chicken and I can't wait to tear off a corner of the crisp golden skin. When nearing the open door of a good fish and chip shop, I know the aroma of batter (shortly to be doused with salt and vinegar) will fill me with cravings. Golden cheese bubbling under a grill will always melt my resistance. Even as I write, I am being tempted by a scent as it circles up the stairs from the kitchen, snaking into the office. It is the smell of a cake cooking.

The perfume of a warm kitchen where someone is baking is one of the most reassuring and comforting things I know. Outside it has been gloomy all day and though I haven't even wanted to venture out, I can tell it is cold just by peering through the rain-spattered window at the swaying trees opposite. Baking was invented for days like this. Actually, I think the bad weather helps.

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Enticing Aromas Food Food Geoffrey Smeddle On Baking Power

So I have spent the past hour and a bit in a dust of flour and sugar, weighing dried fruits, butter and syrup.

Such ingredients, it is easy to forget, do have shelf lives, so make sure yours are not months old be...

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