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Nicola Lamb's avatar

In the method (it was missing from original email) you add the egg/yolks after whisking in all the milk. It's now updated in the online version! OOPS. Happy Canelé making, everyone!

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Emma's avatar

For anyone with silicone moulds - I have the deBuyer elastamoule moulds that come as 6 to a sheet. You don't need to wax these but as I had been gifted some beeswax by a lovely beekeeping colleague I decided to try. Nicola suggested 50/50 beeswax/clarified butter as we thought I would need to brush it on. Turns out what I actually found easiest was to fill 1 mould at a time then tip it back out into the saucepan of wax/butter - eg working from top right corner, fill, tip out over the corner, left corner repeat. The edge of the moulds gets messy but you can clean that up after. Aim for thin layers and build them up (to avoid too much pooling in the bottom) and try to avoid handling the sheet in a way that squashes the cavities as this will crack the wax layer.

PS a plastic bench scraper is your best friend when trying to clean up cold, solidified wax from work surfaces/sheet pans/stoves. Hopefully doesn't need to be said but don't let melted wax go down the sink or your drains will be deeply deeply unhappy!

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