@Shelovescake
Cake lover, baker, eater. Soon to be Leith’s Diploma student. Dabbling in catering, cakes and desserts to order and seasonal workshops.
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As I come to the end of week four, I feel like I might just be getting into my Leith’s groove 🙂 Of course, I could fall flat on my face in next week’s formal assessment but for now let’s take the positive vibes! Brilliant start to the week, and what you’ve no doubt all…
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Chicken, chicken and more chicken. I even dreamt about jointing a chicken! Indeed, my brain is so busy trying to make sense and organise all the culinary knowledge and learning that I am dreaming about my days at Leith’s every night. It’s been a physically exhausting week but I end it feeling elated and fizzing…
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The increasing pace and breadth of the curriculum certainly kept us busy through week two. Between teaching demonstrations and hands-on kitchen sessions, we covered various sauces and batters, hummus and crudités, basic bread dough, veg prep and cooking, jointing and cooking chicken, and making our own white meat stock using chicken carcasses and veal bones.…
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After six months of waiting and anticipating, I finally walked into Leith’s School of Food & Wine on Tuesday to begin my Culinary Diploma adventure. Joining our crisp new uniforms in our lockers were three Leith’s aprons and a box of delights…! After a considerable information download on the term ahead from Head of School,…
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You should be able to make scones in the time it takes to boil a kettle. This edict, oft cited by my mother, presumably originated from a time of whistling kettles on gas hobs. Still, it is certainly one of the joys of eating a scone that you can desire it, smell it, and have…
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