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Gingerbread Doughnuts with Egg Nog Glaze
Ingredients 10 cups all-purpose flour 2 cups white sugar 4 tbsp ground cinnamon 2 tbsp ground nutmeg 4 tbsp ground ginger 1 tsp ground cloves 4 tbsp baking powder 4 eggs 4 cups whole milk 1 tbsp vanilla vegetable oil (or your choice) to fill deep-fryer 1 lb doughnut fondant (can be purchased from specialty […]
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Gingerbread Doughnuts with Egg Nog Glaze
Ingredients 10 cups all-purpose flour 2 cups white sugar 4 tbsp ground cinnamon 2 tbsp ground nutmeg 4 tbsp ground ginger 1 tsp ground cloves 4 tbsp baking powder 4 eggs 4 cups whole milk 1 tbsp vanilla vegetable oil (or your choice) to fill deep-fryer 1 lb doughnut fondant (can be purchased from specialty […]
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Unni Simensen
Founder and former chef, Scanway Catering It was back in 1980 when Unni Simensen opened Scanway Catering. “Everybody called me Mr. Simensen,” she says, laughing. “There weren’t too many women.” Simensen has always been a perfectionist, even when it made things difficult. “I had to get a few things sent from the market in Boston […]
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Scanway’s coming at ya, Grafton Street
You miss pressing your face against Scanway Catering & Pastry’s Quinpool Road storefront to get a closer look, don’t you? This summer marks the return of Scanway to the food and retail scenes, it’ll be taking over 1567 Grafton Street right next door to its new sibling the Stubborn Goat Gastropub (1579 Grafton Street). “I’m […]
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Best of Food 2013: Editor’s Picks
BEST SPICY Chili Beef, Jincheng Chinese Cuisine “Twice-cooked pork, chili chicken, chili beef and gonbao chicken.” Chef Daigen Zou rhymes off the most popular hot and spicy dishes on the Jincheng menu. The special chili sauce—a chef’s secret—is what he attributes to the flavourful secret of the chili beef’s success. A simple mix of thinly […]
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How to bribe Santa with cookies
Now that it’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year, shifty-eyed tots around the world are breaking into a nervous sweat whenever the words “naughty or nice” come up. But before they take that long Christmas Eve walk down the red and green mile to their rooms, think about giving the naughtier children in your […]
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Best Catering
Editor’s note: With its latest Best Catering win in 2008, Scanway was elevated to the Best of Halifax Hall of Fame. Passersby on Quinpool Road can stop to admire bright, fanciful wedding cakes through the window. Leafing through Scanway’s catering menus you will find everything from simple picnic baskets to food for elaborate receptions. Scanway […]