Tag: baking

Hot water crust pockets

On By CarynIn Recipe

We recently had a pastry pocket party, with three different fillings in hot water pastry crust. I love the hot water crust because it is easy to work and stays strong. To differentiate the fillings, each one had a different pastry shape. Rectangular for the apple pie, round for the chicken with mozzarella and roasted peppers, and half circle for the beef and peas. I ended up making three batches of hot water crust, but wrapped each kind of filling in each batch. I would do it differently next time, only doing one filling per batch to go in the oven, and putting some kind of topping on each one, to liven up the crust.

Photo description: three different shapes of pastry pockets in the first batch, sitting in a cooling rack

Silicone baking mats

On By CarynIn Bread

My sister gifted me several silicone baking mats. I had never tried them before; I usually just use parchment paper to bake. I was pleasantly surprised how well they worked to bake scones! The bottom of the scones were nicely browned, just like when I use parchment.

Scones baked on a silicone mat

The mat washed up easily, stores easily, and there is one less thing to go in the trash can. Nice. The scones were made from a baking mix from Sunrise Mills, which turned out nice and flaky.