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Flaxseed oil with quark or cottage cheese: the German way
Flaxseed oil and cottage cheese, or quark, is an old German pairing: fresh linseed oil over creamy quark with jacket potatoes. Here is how to make it, keep the oil fresh, and what the Budwig claims are worth.
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Yellow mustard oil vs black mustard oil: taste and uses
What yellow mustard oil is, how it differs from black mustard oil in seed, sharpness, colour and use, the chemistry behind mustard's bite, and...
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Mustard oil vs olive oil: which suits Indian cooking?
Mustard oil vs olive oil for Indian kitchens, side by side: what is in each, how they handle tadka and frying, why one is...
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Groundnut oil uses in China, West Africa, the US and Gujarat
Groundnut oil uses in China, West Africa, the United States and Gujarat, why refined and unrefined peanut oil behave so differently, and the allergy...
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Ghee around the world: niter kibbeh, smen, samneh and more
Ethiopia's niter kibbeh, Morocco's aged smen, Arab samneh, Persian roghan and French clarified butter are all cousins of ghee. What makes each different, and...
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Mustard oil uses across Bengal, Bangladesh, Punjab and Nepal
Mustard oil uses change from kitchen to kitchen: raw on Bengali bhorta and Bihari chokha, hazed for curries, the pickling oil of Punjab and...
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Refined vs unrefined coconut oil: smell, smoke point, uses
Refined vs unrefined coconut oil: RBD oil is neutral and smokes higher; unrefined keeps its coconut aroma and natural traces. How each is made,...
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Is coconut oil good for you, or 'pure poison'?
Is coconut oil good for you? From superfood to 'pure poison' in a decade: what it really does to cholesterol, where the hype came...
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Toasted sesame oil vs sesame oil: how Asia and India use each
Toasted sesame oil vs sesame oil: Korea and China finish dishes with the dark, toasted kind; Japan fries tempura in clear taihaku oil; India...
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Piloncillo, panela, rapadura and jaggery: one sugar, many names
Mexico's piloncillo, Colombia's panela, Brazil's rapadura and India's jaggery are all cane juice boiled down in open pans. Here is how they differ, how...
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Is peanut oil healthy? Groundnut oil myths, checked
Is peanut oil healthy? Groundnut oil is mostly monounsaturated fat, with some omega-6 and little saturated fat. Here is what the evidence says about...
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What is ghee? And is it the same as clarified butter?
What is ghee? Butter or cream simmered until the water is gone and the milk solids toast, then strained. All ghee is clarified butter,...
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