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Summertime is travel time again, and this year, New England is on the agenda for many American lovers. One of our favorite destinations is, of course, Stonewall Kitchen in Maine, as we, as the exclusive importer for Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and, more recently, Denmark, regularly visit their production and product range. Driving north from Boston on the scenic Route 1, you'll arrive in the small town of York, just across the Maine state line. Right at the entrance to the town is the bustling Stonewall Kitchen headquarters, with a beautifully decorated shop to browse (including unusual decorative items and great...

Today is National Apple Pie Day in America. Of course, I'm baking an apple pie! For some time now, I've been collecting pie pans made of all sorts of materials: glass, metal, ceramic, aluminum... For today's holiday, I'm trying out my new pink pie pan for the first time. There are numerous pie recipes, and I'm still experimenting. Today, for the pastry crust, I'm trying the All-American Double Crust recipe from Ken Haedrich's "Apple Pie Perfect": 3 cups flour 2 tablespoons sugar 3/4 tsp salt 170 g cold butter 60g Crisco All-Vegetable Shortening 1/2 cup cold water For a successful...

What is molasses? Molasses, as it's called in our language, is often used in American recipes. Gingerbread, in particular, is indispensable without this ingredient. In the Southern states, the brown liquid is also used in BBQ sauces. Our Bourbon Molasses Barbecue Sauce from Stonewall Kitchen or our Bourbon Molasses Mustard from Stonewall Kitchen are two examples. Molasses is a thick, brown sugar syrup that is a byproduct of sugar production. When sugarcane juice is boiled, cane sugar and molasses are produced. Depending on how often the sugarcane juice is boiled, there are three grades of molasses: Mild (with the highest sugar content), Dark, and...

In American recipes, the quantities are given in spoons and cups and the oven temperatures in Fahrenheit. If you often bake and cook using such recipes, you should get spoons and cups for easy measuring. The measurements can also be converted for one-time use. For simplicity, butter quantities can be found in the following table, as can the oven temperatures: Conversion of butter measurements Tablespoons and cups   piece (stick) weight USA weight metric  1 Tbsp 1/8 1/2 oz 14 g 2 Tbsp 1/4 1 oz 25 g 3 Tbsp 1/2 1 1/2 oz 42 g 1/4 cup (= 4 Tbsp)...