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September 2019 Recipes of the Month

Enjoy the free recipe and other original recipes of the month! Happy baking from the BB Test Kitchen. Recipes for September 2019 Free Recipe of the Month – Best Deep Dish Apple Cake This is the best apple cake I know (except for my mother’s High Apple Pie)  Blackberry Ricotta Scones The most crisp and […]

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September 2022 A Note from Marcy

Dear Fellow Bakers and Friends, Welcome to the September 2022 Issue of Betterbaking.com. If you’ve been following my newsletters over the years you know I used to have a like/dislike relationship with summer. For most of my life, I dreaded summer right off the mark. In mid-June I’d begin protesting the hot, dry days I […]

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Spode, Fit for a King & Harney and Sons Historic Royal Palaces Tea

Spode porcelain was introduced about 1800 in the factory of Josiah Spode and Josiah Spode II at Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, England. This hybrid porcelain—combining the ingredients of hard-paste porcelain (china clay and china stone) and bone ash—became the standard English bone china. Blue Italian is one of their oldest patterns and certainly iconic. In honour of […]

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TrusTea from Ireland, fine teas for the discerning palate

www.trusTEA.ie I drink a lot of tea from many different companies but over the years I’ve only had two favorites: Harney and Sons Fine Teas and Upton Tea Imports (I love their River Shannon Tea). But now I have a new favorite (and bear in mind each of these companies tea sensibility is quite different). […]

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