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nail porridge for supper? As seen in his recent Channel 4 series, How to Cook Like Heston, in Heston Blumenthal at Home, Heston turns his extraordinary skill and experience to familiar family recipes adding his expert touch to creating day to day dishes like shepherd’s pie, spaghetti carbonara, a Sunday chicken with the perfect roast potatoes (see last week’s epsiode), or fun, retro party dishes like a classic prawn cocktail and the cheese fondue below. In Heston’s hands a normal weeknight supper becomes an entirely different, and delicious experience. Heston Blumenthal at Home £30.00 / Hardback Cheese fondue with sherry and cloves Done well, fondue is a lot of fun – a communal free-for-all that doesn’t need a knife and fork. You want the cheese to be runny and stringy, not thick and stodgy, and the key to this is using cornflour and white wine to prevent the proteins in the cheese coagulating. One of the other factors that gives this fondue its character is the combination of sherry and cloves, which go so well together because of a compound they have in common called eugenol. In tandem they help produce a richly flavoured mixture that needn’t be confined to fondue. If it’s left to set the fondue can be sliced to make an amazing cheese toastie and it’s equally good on burgers, on toast, in Welsh rarebit, or for topping the bread in onion soup. Scroll Down for recipe
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