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Celebrating Shortbread
Today’s Spotlight is on Shortbread.
Shortbread or shortie is a traditional Scottish biscuit usually made from one-part white sugar, two parts butter, and three to four parts plain wheat flour. Shortbread does not contain any leavening, such as baking powder or baking soda.
Shortbread is a cookie, not bread. It's called shortbread because it's made with a dough that's rich in fat. The traditional ratio is one part sugar to two parts butter. This gives the dough a high fat content, which results in a soft, buttery crumb that melts in your mouth.
Shortbread is made with the following ingredients:
Celebrating Tempura
Today’s Spotlight is on Tempura.
Tempura is a Japanese dish that involves lightly battering and deep-frying food. Tempura typically consists of seafood and vegetables that have been coated in a thin batter and deep fried. The batter is typically made from flour, egg, and water. The food is often seafood, vegetables, or chicken.
Tempura is known for its light batter, which is airy, crunchy, and not very oily. It's often served over rice or noodles. The batter is traditionally made from: Flour, Egg yolks, Cold water. Some more modern takes on the batter include Starches, Baking soda, Spices. Different regions have their own ways of making the batter.
Celebrating Whipped Cream
Today’s Spotlight is on Whipped Cream.
Whipped cream is heavy cream, double cream, or other high-fat cream that is whipped by a whisk or mixer until it is light and fluffy and holds its shape. Cream aerated by the expansion of dissolved gas, forming a firm colloid, is also called whipped cream. Whipped cream is a high-fat cream that is whipped until it is light and fluffy. It can be made with a whisk or mixer. The higher the fat content of the cream, the quicker it will take to whip.
To make whipped cream, you can use:
Celebrating Spaghetti
Today’s Spotlight is on Spaghetti.
Spaghetti is a long, thin, solid, cylindrical pasta. It is a staple food of traditional Italian cuisine. It is made from milled wheat, water, and sometimes enriched with vitamins and minerals. Italian spaghetti is typically made from durum-wheat semolina. Spaghetti is a long, thin, cylindrical pasta that is a staple of traditional Italian cuisine.
Spaghetti is named for its “thin string” shape. It is versatile and can be paired with a variety of sauces, including:
Fruitcake Toss Day
Today’s Spotlight is on Fruitcake. Well it’s more about getting rid of un eaten fruitcake.
Fruitcake Toss Day is an annual holiday that takes place on January 3. The day celebrates fruitcakes by tossing them in an empty space. The goal is to get rid of unwanted fruitcake.
On Fruitcake Toss Day, people toss any leftover or uneaten fruitcake into the air. Some people prefer the classic arm toss, while others use a fruitcake slingshot or pneumatic weapon launch.
In Manitou, Colorado, hundreds of people gather to compete to see who can throw their fruitcake the highest or the greatest distance.
Celebrating Cream Puffs
Today’s Spotlight is on Cream Puffs.
A cream puff is a filled French choux pastry ball with a typically sweet and moist filling of whipped cream, custard, pastry cream, or ice cream. The puffs may be decorated or left plain or garnished with chocolate sauce, caramel, or a dusting of powdered sugar.
Cream puffs are made with a high water content, which turns into steam during baking. The steam expands the dough, leaving behind hollow pockets of air with a crisp outer shell.
Celebrating Black Eyed Peas
Today’s Spotlight is on Black Eyed Peas.
Black-eyed peas are a type of legume that are actually beans, not peas. They are a variety of the cowpea, which is a member of the legume, pea, or bean family. They are also known as "goat pea" and "southern pea". It is a subspecies of the cowpea, an Old World plant domesticated in Africa, and is sometimes simply called a cowpea.
Celebrating Champagne
Today’s Spotlight is on Champagne.
Champagne was a province in the northeast of the Kingdom of France, now best known as the Champagne wine region for the sparkling white wine that bears its name in modern-day France. The County of Champagne, descended from the early medieval kingdom of Austrasia, passed to the French crown in 1314.
Champagne the beverage, is a sparkling wine that's made in the Champagne region of France. It's made using the traditional method (méthode traditionnelle), the rules of the appellation, that demand specific vineyard practices, which involves sourcing of grapes exclusively from France and a two-step fermentation process. The grape juice is fermented into alcohol and then bottled to turn into sparkling wine.
Celebrating Bacon
Today’s Spotlight is on Bacon.
Bacon is a type of salt-cured pork made from various cuts, typically the belly or less fatty parts of the back It has a rich, savory taste and a satisfyingly crispy texture when cooked. . It is eaten as a side dish, used as a central ingredient, or as a flavoring or accent.
Bacon is eaten as a: