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I don't think HCBs are superior to mince pies, but growing up in a non-white, non-Christian family, we used to eat HCBs all year round. They're always available, so why wouldn't you? I remember casually mentioning it to my gf (now wife) quite early on in our relationship and she had genuinely never countenanced the idea. To her it was like eating Easter eggs at any other time of the year.

Why are they on sale all year round if you're not supposed to eat them?? WHY?

Unrelated, I'm definitely buying a box of mince pies from Dunns tomorrow.

(now wife)

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Every time I've gone past Dunn's in about the past six months it's always had a massive queue.

Dunns

2nd best doughnuts in London

No oyster sauce. Sub ketjap manis or fish sauce? Or a dash of both?

Have fired some ketjap in for now, and off to get oyster from the shop, but curious to hear opinions.

I've also eaten HCBs all year round.

I remember some disapproval from C of E primary school teachers at my school when that was mentioned as a child.

Why are they on sale all year round if you're not supposed to eat them?? WHY?

Because heresies are everywhere. REPENT! REPENT! :)

2nd best doughnuts in London

So what are the best? Asking for a friend

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Rinkoff Bakery. I don't think they usually make them apart from during Hanukkah though.

I can’t believe I’ve never checked them out, they do Crodoughs too! I’ll take a ride over next week.

hmmm I'd have said soy and maybe some hoisin/bbq sauce (or ketchup) could thicken with some corn starch - not fish sauce that flavour is will be far too strong. What are you cooking?

Is this the same as eating pancakes on dates other than fat Tuesday?

Pancakes are essential for Mardi Gras but welcome every other day

But all the recipes took agggggggges.

Till I saw you can do the stick blender mayo trick with it. I ain’t drizzlin sheeyit.

So the Rinkoff Bakery is well hidden away through this allyway

https://goo.gl/maps/mCEynnpsCja6VPcZ6

Sure enough they had a nice selection of cronuts

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It is a bit tricky to find but worth the explore IMHO. What did you think of them?

Delicious. I’d rate Dominique Ansel slightly better but Rinkoff is only 15 mins from home by bike and their cronuts are half the price, so it’s a no brainier. Thanks for the tip!

Dominique Ansel

I'm not sure if they did a doughnut but they seem to be closed forever :(

They did the best cronut, that’s a real shame.

Trying to find an ice cream/batter scoop for dosing cookie dough. There are loads on an online webshop but with very mixed reviews. Ideally one with a trigger mechanism for ejecting balls of cookie dough. Possibly a couple of sizes for small and large cookies.

Any suggestions?

Two soup spoons?
#howmomdidit

Yeah yeah

I was making peanut cookies at the weekend, the mixture was too sticky to make quenelles. Hence the interest in an ice cream/dough scoop as suggested in the recipe.

Had to look up quenelles though I’d heard of them before. Mom’s technique was less refined, but I always marvelled at the consistent size of the resulting cookies.

Get a cheap metal faced one. They all fail in the end.