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Snack Sticks – Beef, Black Bean & Garlic 

Snack sticks can be flavored with commercially available sauces.  Sauces are often high in salt and acid (which act as preservatives), so this must be considered.

This is the first snack stick I’ve made with beef; I used ground beef from the store with some added pork back fat. 

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Chelsea Bun(ish) Recipe

Originally posted in 2008:

Now I know if I call this recipe a Chelsea Bun, someone will come along and say, “Oh, no it’s not, a Chelsea bun is made with currants, lemon zest, or whatever and glazed with the milk of a particular species of Yak, only found on one lost island in Battersea Park!” Hence the ‘ish’ in the title!

I made these a couple of weeks ago from a recipe in Prue Leith and Caroline Waldegrave’s Cookery Bible but wasn’t 100% happy with them. Here’s my take on the recipe, it still needs fine tweaking. I think that it probably needs more liquid.

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