This is our first episode discussing gluten free baking. Unfortunately, the baking audio for this episode was lost and couldn’t be recovered, but we hope you enjoy our discussion of Jessie Sheehan’s incredible Flourless Hazelnut Nutella Cake nonetheless. We go over what gluten is, what ingredients it’s found in, and some easy approaches for GF baking newcomers.    https://www.jessiesheehanbakes.com/2017/10/31/flourless-hazelnut-cake-with-nutella-whipped-cream/

Episode 22: Gluten-Free Baking

It's the middle of winter in the Northern Hemisphere and we could all use a little hygge: the Scandinavian concept of convivial and contented coziness. In this episode we make a Swedish cinnamon roll, or kannelbullar, and discuss all our favorite bakes for filling your home with coziness.

Episode 21: Baking for Hygge

All about one of our favorite baking ingredients, citrus fruits! We adapted Sophie Faldo's (Great British Bake Off) Ode to the Honey Bee entremet into an Ode to Citrus. 

Episode 20: Citrus!

In this episode, we discuss how we develop recipes, something we’re now doing for work! Plus, we practice recipe building by making a cake that came to Roxanne in a dream.   Chocolate ft. Sohla El-Waylly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXnlVlkkkxM   Chocolate Fudge Blackout Cake: https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/chocolate-fudge-blackout-cake-recipe   Sweet Tart Passion Fruit Curd: https://www.garlicandzest.com/sweet-tart-passion-fruit-curd/

Episode 19: Recipe Development

Disclaimer-laden and high on sugar, we’re coming at you with our first episode about plant-based baking. We cover the basics of vegan bakes and make a plant-based pavlova!   Article on militant white veganism from Lakota Law: https://www.lakotalaw.org/news/2018-12-12/veganism    Cupcake Jemma Recipes mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QECjltYhwYg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj9wbbPKMIU

Episode 18: The First Vegan One

Sourdough part two of who knows how many! This episode features an interview with our dear friend and sourdough enthusiast Toby. We also made the Sourdoughnuts from Bon Appetit’s “It’s Alive” youtube series - twice!    Check out Toby’s work! https://www.sartorialsquonk.com    Brad & Claire Make Sourdoughnuts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzDwiw7xIHE   Reddit recipe:  https://www.reddit.com/r/bon_appetit/comments/cm08w3/sourdough_donuts_the_recipe/

Episode 17: Sourdough Part 2/???

Let’s blast the past! In this episode we discuss mid-20th-century American recipes and bake Jessie Sheehan’s incomparable and high femme silver cake. Sources:    https://www.jessiesheehanbakes.com/2018/05/19/silver-cake-with-pink-frosting/   COOLEY, A. (2015). To Live and Dine in Dixie: The Evolution of Urban Food Culture in the Jim Crow South. University of Georgia Press. Retrieved November 12, 2020, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt17573sg    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-enslaved-chefs-helped-shape-american-cuisine-180969697/    https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/3/140301-african-american-food-history-slavery-south-cuisine-chefs/    https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/food-matters/eating-jim-crow/

Episode 16: Vintage Baking & Silver Cake

Happy Halloween & Blessed Samhain! This episode is all about our relationships to food and sacred rituals. We discuss Hoodoo offerings, Samhain, Día de los Muertos, and Shinto buddhism. We also made funnel cake, a traditional dish of Finnish Mayday celebrations. For patreon subscribers, we’ve released some bonus footage about the Hungry Ghost Festival and bread-loving faeries.   Sources:   https://www.hoodoofoundry.com/the-ancestor-altar/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoodoo_(spirituality) http://missionaryindependent.org/conjurecookoff.html  http://missionaryindependent.org/hoodoo-heritage-festival-workshops.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Dead  https://spiritspodcast.com/episodes/dia-de-los-muertos?rq=day%20of%20the%20dead  http://www.theafromystic.com/blog/2017/11/4/a-veneration-prayer-to-invoke-the-ancestral-spirits  http://blackyouthproject.com/how-learning-to-work-with-my-ancestors-created-a-relationship-of-reciprocity-and-parental-support/  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/msf-podcast-05-hoodoo-black-southern-spirituality-conjure/id1506840626?i=1000472248624

Sacred Foods & Funnel Cake

We're back! Thank you to everyone for tuning back in for season 2. We recorded this episode and the following one remotely at the beginning of the COVID19 outbreak, so apologies for the audio quality. It will greatly improve starting with the episode 3 of this season! In this episode we catch up with some exciting updates, discuss Roxanne's fraught sourdough experiments, exalt the glory of the savory bake in all its forms, and bake a bacon and venison pie together. 

Episode 14: Savory Bakes & Venison Bacon Pie

In our Season 1 finale we discuss our families' Christmas baking traditions, Roxanne quizzes Fiona on various culture's traditional winter baked goods, and we rhapsodize over the lovely panettone we made!  Chrusciki:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_wings  https://www.thespruceeats.com/what-are-chrusciki-1135581   Makowiec:  https://culture.pl/en/article/makowiec-the-most-scandalous-cake-in-the-world   Laufabrauð:  https://forvo.com/word/laufabrauð/  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laufabrauð  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Christmas_folklore   Yule!   https://theherbalacademy.com/celebrate-winter-solstice/  https://wicca.com/celtic/akasha/yule.htm   Judith:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanukkah   Lebkuchen:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebkuchen  https://germangirlinamerica.com/what-is-lebkuchen/   Panettone:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panettone

Episode 13: Winter Holiday Bakes

It's the beginning of our sourdough journey! Join us, won't you? In this episode, we offer an overview of sourdough and describe our experience following Brad Leone’s & Claire Saffitz's sourdough tutorial on the Bon Appétit youtube page. Spoiler alert: at the end there's bread.

Episode 12: Sourdough Part 1/???

Roxanne very rudely forgot to introduce her dad in their interview, as if everyone should already know his name! Presumptuous. His name is David, or Doctor Be. This episode we share two of our fathers' specialty bakes with each other, and celebrate our appreciation for spending time in the kitchen with our dads! Apologies if the audio is somewhat crackly in places, we couldn't figure out how that one happened. Thank you for listening!

Episode 11: Family Bakes: Daaaydzz Edition, Placek, & Crown Roll

This is merely the beginning of our chocolate-centric episodes. We discuss our favorite chocolate bakes, bake Nadiya Hussain's decadent Chocolate-Peanut tart, and dive into what exactly cocoa powder is and how we get it from a darn bean! It's a good reminder that we are bakers but not chemists.

Episode 10: Cocoa, Nadiya Hussain's Chocolate-Peanut Tart, and Chemistry Fails

It is established Whisk Takers canon that we learned a lot about baking from our Moms. This week we interviewed them for you! We also talk about some of our personal favorite family bakes and what we MUST HAVE for the holidays. 

Episode 9: Family Favorites and Interview With Our Moms!

What has flour and fat, and isn't a cake or pie? Her name is Pastry and she's got the secret key to flaky, buttery, cream-filled, honey-soaked goodness. For this episode, we baked Kouign Amann (pronounced Queen-Ahmahn), a sweet puff-pastry-muffin much easier than it seems. Book Turn Lamination Technique: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnOxkNH-GLs Kouign Amann Video showing Letter Turns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CiS6LSNGfI  

Pastry: Who Is She? + Our Baking Standbys

Y'know those ingredients where when you hear they're in a cake or a brownie, it ruins your whole day? We're here to talk about those! First we discuss our personal no-go ingredients, then we do an arbitration on controversial baked goods submitted by listeners, and finally, we baked Chetna Makan's Mango Coconut Cardamom Cake, which is rife with controversial ingredients! Chetna's Cake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0naZ3lrv4Y Travis's Mango Cult: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhDDwvAhfGw Patreon, if you want us to eat Marmite! https://www.patreon.com/whisktakerspod?alert=2  

Episode 7: I Just Can't Eat That, Controversial Ingredients, and Mango Coconut Cardamom Cake

Roxanne got married recently, and we thought this would be an opportune time to talk about wedding desserts. What were the best wedding desserts we've had? What is the history of having desserts at weddings? And what did we have at our weddings? This episode includes an interview with Engineer Dan about making Fiona's wedding desserts.  The Sweet Praxis: https://www.thesweetpraxis.com Lulu: https://www.everythinglulu.com/menus  

Episode 6: Weddings, Weddings, and Weddings

As a bonus this week, we have a preview of the sort of episode you'll get if you join our Patreon! This is the live audio of our first baking session, making Puits D'amour and lots of silly jokes. This bonus content is for all of our listeners, but future baking audio will be reserved for Patrons only, so if you like it, please become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/whisktakerspod

Bonus Baking for Episode 1

Yes, baking disasters are hilarious, but it's nice to be successful sometimes! This week Fiona and Roxanne talk about some of the times they've had spectacular baking triumphs, some of the cookbooks where they get their ideas, and the time they casually made a Beef Wellington with homemade puff pastry. Our Patreon is here! patreon.com/whisktakerspod Please share with a friend and leave a review on iTunes!

Episode 5: Our Baking Triumphs, Favorite Cookbooks, and Beef Wellington

We're good bakers, but no matter how good you are at baking there are times when the dang thing just doesn't do what it's supposed to. We're starting this episode with a very raw sharing session about some of our personal baking disasters, but then we get to make fun of old-timey people and the way they approached food, featuring bird crimes, pudding crimes, and poisoning people with sawdust crimes. We also made a Bakewell Tart to prove that even though we completely failed at that the first time we tried, we are capable of redemption. Just like Mad Max.  Live birds in pie: http://www.thousandeggs.com/gretepye.html Pudding throwing: https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/world-black-pudding-throwing-championship Yorkshire puddings down the toilet:  https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/yorkshire-pudding-sewer-blockage 

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