let them eat cake

let them eat cake

first slice

TW Lim
Jan 16, 2023
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According to my photos, this was my first pâté-croûte since December 2021. My main goal for this round was to see if soy and five spice felt totally out of place in a pâté-croûte, so I started with a familiar recipe (from Gilles Verot)1, changed the spicing, and used lou instead of jus de volaille to moisten. Otherwise, the proportions of the solids are …

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