{"id":19975,"date":"2025-01-01T23:09:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T22:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=19975"},"modified":"2025-01-04T23:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T22:16:13","slug":"daily_3593_-_brandy_sauce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2025\/01\/01\/daily_3593_-_brandy_sauce\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3593 &#8211; brandy sauce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3593_pudding.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I made the brandy sauce for the Christmas pudding based on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/food\/recipes\/brandysauce_2534\"\">BBC Food&#8217;s recipe<\/a> and it&#8217;s almost like a jelly in texture. I could probably cut it into shapes. You&#8217;d think the BBC would be a reliable source for a recipe like that! When my mum saw the sauce, she immediately guessed that it was the BBC recipe &#8211; &#8220;that&#8217;s the one with 55 grams of everything&#8221; &#8211; because she&#8217;s had the same experience. So it really is the recipe that&#8217;s strange, not me mis-measuring anything.<\/p>\n<p>But if you can get past the odd looks, it&#8217;s rather practical. The sauce stays where you put it on the plate, and you can take precisely as much as you want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made the brandy sauce for the Christmas pudding based on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[790,791,18,745,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrations","category-christmas","category-dailies","category-food_and_cooking","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19976,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19975\/revisions\/19976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}