A smaller stake means a smaller return.
It's all about entertainment, it's a feast, a big multicolored gateau, a mosaic.
It's contemporary, with buttermilk biscuit crumbles adding punctuation to a salad featuring a goat cheese gateau and a burnt-onion soubise, or sauce, enhancing the main course.
To make a large base, or to create a Gateau Saint Honoré, make a paper template to place under your baking parchment.
The cooking techniques in this book are not difficult, just time-consuming, and the recipes are not as complicated as assembling a galantine or making a gateau St.-Honore.
First up is the Madeira cake (watch out for Berry's very sweet "candy drop test") followed by the "technical challenge" of Mary's Frosted Walnut Cake, a pre-war classic that is as British as they come, and a finally a Black Forest Gateau.
A crusty, warm apple torte, escorted by a puff of raisins and whipped cream, was just fine but a gateau Saint Honore bore little resemblance to the traditional towering French cake.
You couldn't miss the bold Kulturtage posters: a black forest gateau with a huge star of David in piped cream.
From gorgeously caramelised Kouign Amann to a magnificent Gateau St Honore, good luck knowing where to start.
But best of all, those with a sweet tooth could try the one-woman opera Bon Appétit! by Lee Hoiby: adapted from a classic Julia Child cookery broadcast, it requires the singer to bake a chocolate gateau on stage.
They organised dances and celebrated birthdays and religious holidays – they once made a potato gateau as a treat, from food scraps they had managed to save.
