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Many bakers attribute milk bread's feathery softness to tangzhong, a roux that’s incorporated into the dough.

Stuffed with peanut butter and drizzled with condensed milk, it’s perfect for breakfast—or any time.

Get a better rise on your sweet loaves, pastries, and doughnuts with yeast that’s trained for a high sugar dough.

For these recipes, you'll make a double batch of a base sauce. Use half for one dish, and then turn the remainder into a radically different meal the following night.

How an herbal liqueur from the Alps transformed my hot chocolate routine.

Tossed with pasta or cooked into shrimp and rice, the sweet and briny pair make a killer sauce.

Kingston cookies–or bikkies, as Australians call them—are sweet, oaty treats sandwiched with a rich chocolate cream.

You could eat it simply with rice or flatbread, but even better? Spoon it into baked bell peppers or crispy cheese sandwiches.

This majestic cake—beloved by chefs all over—is worth making for your special celebration.

This is a story I’d hoped I’d never have to write.

You could have a comforting soup to enjoy on its own for a couple of meals—but you can also use the leftovers to make a whole new dish.

Some fresh fruit juices contain just the right thing to prevent the dreaded dough snap-back.

All the tips and tricks you need to make no-fail French, Swiss, and Italian meringue.

Flavor-potting sets you up for success with a flavorful braising broth that you can cook with again and again.

All about alliums.

Stash of any of these three basic bumbu dasar, and you can make delicious Indonesian meals any time, without a laundry list of ingredients. 

San bei ji—literally “three cup chicken,” for the plentiful sesame oil, soy sauce and rice wine it contains—is one of Taiwan's most beloved dishes for a good reason.

There is no cornstarch, gelatin, egg, or custard powder in this recipe—just a naturally occurring enzyme in ginger that transforms milk into a silky dessert.

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