Ingredient Spotlight: Turmeric

… plus a recipe for Fresh Turmeric and Lemon Curd and plenty of other ideas for delicious cakes and brilliant desserts featuring Turmeric

“… it goes into everything … Its role has nothing to do with colour (apart from giving your fingers an edgy forty-fags-a-day look) and has everything to do with flavour.” Nisha Katona “The Spice Tree”

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Today I want to talk about Turmeric, an ingredient that many of you are probably familiar with from cooking Indian food but that you might so far have overlooked when it comes to baking and desserts. And I would love to change that! So in the first installment of what will hopefully become a regular feature in this newsletter, tod…