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Butter
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A book with a cover as inviting as butter – rich yellow and beautifully designed – how could I resist?
We always choose butter but not margarine to cook.
Asking a woman who loves to cook for a recipe is to strike them in their weakest, most unprotected spot.
I baked cakes using this recipe from my auntie. It's a French 'four quarter' pound cake, made with equal parts egg, flour, butter, and granulated sugar (150 grams each).
A journalist (Rika Machida), interviews a food-loving serial killer (Manako Kajii), but the focus is on recipes, not crimes, blurring the lines between them.
This book is really well-written, but it is quite lengthy. If you have the time to dedicate to a long read, I highly recommend it.
We always choose butter but not margarine to cook.
Asking a woman who loves to cook for a recipe is to strike them in their weakest, most unprotected spot.
I baked cakes using this recipe from my auntie. It's a French 'four quarter' pound cake, made with equal parts egg, flour, butter, and granulated sugar (150 grams each).
A journalist (Rika Machida), interviews a food-loving serial killer (Manako Kajii), but the focus is on recipes, not crimes, blurring the lines between them.
This book is really well-written, but it is quite lengthy. If you have the time to dedicate to a long read, I highly recommend it.
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March 17, 2024
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asian-literature
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crime
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fiction
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japanese
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mystery
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novel
March 26, 2024
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Mar 26, 2024 02:19AM
It is a beautiful cover. Great review, Liong!
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Vanessa (Newville PA) wrote: "It is a beautiful cover. Great review, Liong!"Thank you, Vanessa.
I always choose butter, not margarine, to eat. Butter rules!! I love butter! A food loving serial killer...interesting premise. Interesting review Liong! That pound cakes sounds yummy!!
Barbara wrote: "I always choose butter, not margarine, to eat. Butter rules!! I love butter! A food loving serial killer...interesting premise. Interesting review Liong! That pound cakes sounds yummy!!"Haha! Thank you, Barbara.
Have you ever met someone and thought, if they weren’t a “doctor, lawyer, artist, baker… or whatever they would probably be a serial killer?”Great review! Every cook knows that there isn’t anything that can’t be improved with more butter!
Lynn wrote: "Have you ever met someone and thought, if they weren’t a “doctor, lawyer, artist, baker… or whatever they would probably be a serial killer?”Great review! Every cook knows that there isn’t anything..."I have never met someone as you mentioned before. Thank you, Lynn.
Kanako wrote: "Me either?!"Thank you, Kanako.
This was a strange one. Loneliness and female angst. Couldn’t get past the recipe for pound cake being wrong. 3eggs don’t weigh 500g
Maria wrote: "This was a strange one. Loneliness and female angst. Couldn’t get past the recipe for pound cake being wrong. 3eggs don’t weigh 500g"
Just made with equal parts egg, flour, butter, and granulated sugar.
