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    Everyday Essentials

    Everyday Essentials are basic recipes, tips, and techniques that you will use many times and form the basis of many everyday recipes.

    Techniques and Tips include how to melt chocolate without it burning, easily lining a quiche dish, and how to prevent your cake being dry.

    Basic recipes include homemade mayonnaise, chicken or turkey stock, foolproof cheese sauce.

    Bowl of homemade custard with 2 eggs and a jug of milk

    How to make Custard from scratch

    Half a loaf of Easy No Yeast Bread with 2 slices, butter and butter knife on a beechwood board.

    Easy No-Yeast Bread

    A ball of marzipan on a wooden board

    Marzipan

    White Sauce in a saucepan

    White Sauce

    Homemade Mayonnaise with prawn cocktail sauce and curry mayonnaise

    Homemade Mayonnaise

    Baking tools and cutters

    Best Gifts for Everyday Cooks 2023

    Why is my cake dry? 5 reasons why and what you can do about it. Plus pictures of cakes

    Why is my cake dry? 5 reasons why and how to sort it out

    How to... Melt Chocolate

    Frozen stock cubes, rice, ginger and garlic, onions and batches of chicken casserole, cheese sauce and bolognese sauce

    5 Shortcuts for Cooking from Scratch

    Ingredients ready to be used for Apple Scone

    Be a better cook - 5 tips to up your game

    A brushed steel digital slow cooker

    5 things to consider when buying a Slow Cooker

    Top 5 Herb and Spice Mixes: Mixed Herbs, Mixed Spice, Garam Masala, Gyros, Bouquet Garni.

    Top 5 Herb and Spice mixes

    Victoria Sandwich cake with strawberry jam filling and icing sugar sprinkled on top. The cake is on a plate patterned with pink flowers and leaves.

    Victoria Sandwich

    Basic Chicken Casserole in a large white china pot.

    Basic Chicken Casserole

    A bowl of turkey stock

    Slow Cooker Stock

    Christmas Cake with royal icing, decorated with sugarpaste holly and Christmas puddings

    Royal Icing

    How to marzipan a Christmas Cake - the finished cake ready to be iced.

    How to... Marzipan a Christmas Cake

    Cheese sauce in a red saucepan - ready to eat.

    Foolproof Cheese Sauce

    Serving dish of Basic Bolognese Sauce on a green worktop

    Basic Bolognese Sauce

    Pastry in a quiche dish before cooking

    Pastry for quiches - Pâte Brisée

    Spatchcock chicken ready to cook

    How to... Spatchcock a Chicken

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