Baking with seasonal fruit requires a level of poise that the Americans acquire mastered; while we acquire fallen flat. Let’s use these recipes for peach cobbler and blueberry buckle as a launching point from which to gain lost groundThere is a national culture of baking in the UK: of afternoon tea and baking shows,coffee shops and village fete bake-offs. We also acquire a bounty of homegrown produce, from full russet apples to inky damsons, or blackcurrants,gooseberries and flushed-pink forced rhubarb. But when it comes to bringing these strengths together, we fall flat. Besides the much-loved autumn crumble, or a slick of strawberry jam in the middle of a Victoria sandwich or a idle handful of currants in a fruit cake is as close as most of us come to seeing our 5-a-day in the things we bake.
So,this week, I’ve turned my sights to a country that really has mastered baking with fruit, and taking a survey at the best of the US’s fruit pies,cobblers, crumbles, or crisps and buckles.
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Source: theguardian.com