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Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television
The New Baking
Season 1
Episode 102
Host Christopher Kimball goes to London’s Violet Bakery to learn the baking techniques of rising pastry star Claire Ptak. Back at in the kitchen, Chris and the Milk Street cooks make chocolate, prune and rum cake and a brown sugar tart. Finally, Chris explains how a Japanese baking technique coupled with a cornstarch paste ended his 30-year search for a pie crust that won’t slump in the pan.
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