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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.

    • Baking tools and cutters
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    • How to marzipan a Christmas Cake - the finished cake ready to be iced.
      How to... Marzipan a Christmas Cake
    • Christmas Cake with royal icing, decorated with sugarpaste holly and Christmas puddings
      Royal Icing
    • Serving dish of Basic Bolognese Sauce on a green worktop
      Basic Bolognese Sauce
    • Bowl of homemade custard with 2 eggs and a jug of milk
      How to make Custard from scratch
    • A ball of marzipan on a wooden board
      Marzipan
    • 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
    • Half a loaf of Easy No Yeast Bread with 2 slices, butter and butter knife on a beechwood board.
      Easy No-Yeast Bread
    • Basic Chicken Casserole in a large white china pot.
      Basic Chicken Casserole
    • 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
    • Top 5 Herb and Spice Mixes: Mixed Herbs, Mixed Spice, Garam Masala, Gyros, Bouquet Garni.
      Top 5 Herb and Spice mixes
    • How to... Melt Chocolate
    • A brushed steel digital slow cooker
      5 things to consider when buying a Slow Cooker
    • White Sauce in a saucepan
      White Sauce
    • Pastry in a quiche dish before cooking
      Pastry for quiches - Pâte Brisée
    • A bowl of turkey stock
      Slow Cooker Stock
    • Homemade Mayonnaise with prawn cocktail sauce and curry mayonnaise
      Homemade Mayonnaise
    • Cheese sauce in a red saucepan - ready to eat.
      Foolproof Cheese Sauce
    • Spatchcock chicken ready to cook
      How to... Spatchcock a Chicken
    • Ingredients ready to be used for Apple Scone
      Be a better cook - 5 tips to up your game
    • Frozen stock cubes, rice, ginger and garlic, onions and batches of chicken casserole, cheese sauce and bolognese sauce
      5 Shortcuts for Cooking from Scratch

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    Hi, I'm Susie. Mostly I love cooking and baking, but combining work and home life often leaves me feeling that providing healthy, tasty food for my family is a chore. On those days I am decidedly an Everyday Cook...

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