To make the garlic paste and ginger paste, please refer to the recipes on Cookidoo®.

Replace cinnamon sticks with 3 tbsp ground cinnamon.

Preserves are really easy to make in the Thermomix®, and save you standing over a stove stirring for hours. Use this recipe in the butterfly cakes recipe. Also delicious served with croissants.

This recipe can be doubled or tripled to meet your requirements.

Use any white or light crusty bread such as baguette, ciabatta, wholewheat bread or bread rolls.

In France, different variations of choux pastry have specific names, such as choux à la crème, éclairs, gougères, profiteroles and chouquettes.

This fragrant blend is similar to a traditional Madras curry powder, perfect to enhance flavours in curries or when you are looking to add warmth to a meal.

Turmeric stains easily, so we suggest wearing gloves when peeling turmeric.

Ras el hanout is a spice blend that originated in the Maghreb and combines many different ingredients. The composition differs regionally and from shop to shop. Usually around 25 different spices are used.

Refer to the table of functions inside The Basic Cookbook for other types of cheese.

Store Madras curry powder in a sealable storage container in a cool, dark place for up to 6 months.

Icing sugar can be stored for long periods of time in an airtight container.

Use to grease all forms of baking pans and silicone molds. Coat the form and refrigerate until ready to fill and use. Grease bowls for proofing bread, coat your hands before kneading dough, it won't stick. Smear some on the Thermomix® lid to help prevent discoloration when using turmeric or making tomato sauce. Put some on kitchen knives and they'll slide through dough without sticking. Use on pizza stones, stoneware and cast iron cookware.

Thanks to its long shelf-life, Five spice powder is perfect to have on hand and use at a moment's notice when an added hint of aromatics is required.

Refer to the table of functions for other types of cheese.

Instead of a raw chicken carcass, you could use a leftover roast chicken carcass, 4-6 chicken wings or even the rinsed bones leftover from our Southern-style chicken recipe (see Cookidoo®).

Roasted Garlic can be frozen in ice cube trays for up to 3 months.

Use the cooked chicken to make chicken salad, in soups and casseroles or search Cookidoo® for Acadian Chicken Fricot in our O Canada collection.

1 tablespoon of stock paste is roughly equivalent to 1 shop-bought stock cube.

Try using different flours in this recipe such as soy flour, besan flour (chickpea flour) or sorghum flour. You can also try grinding different grains such as brown rice, amaranth or millet.

This seasoning can be kept in a sealable container in the pantry for up to 6 months.

1 tsp homemade vanilla sugar is roughly equivalent to 3 tsp (0.5 oz) store-bought vanilla sugar.

This is a traditional spice mix used with slight variations in the Middle East and North Africa. In Lebanon it is known as seven-spice mix, in the United Arab Emirates and Gulf countries as b’zhar. Other ingredients like dried ground ginger, ground turmeric and dried ground galangal are often added or used as a substitute. Create your own spice mix with your favourite spices.