Some of you will have seen the Waitrose School Of Christmas Magic advert where TV chef Heston Blumenthal has created a pine sugar dusting for that festive favourite (well in my opinion anyway) the mince pie.
As Heston tells us all: .”Just sprinkle it on …… and they’ll smell just like Christmas trees, straight from the forest.”
Now don’t get me wrong, I LOVE Christmas trees and I love a good walk through a forest and I really LOVE eating mince pies but do I want to eat all those flavours at once, and have a winter wonderland taste bud extravaganza inside my mouth?
Uhm I don’t think I do.
I do have a real tree for Christmas now and it’s smell is pleasant enough. However,I have to admit that I never buy pine scented toilet cleaner because I find the smell of pine a little over powering. Therefore, the thought of eating something I enjoy that is doused in pine scented sugar dusting seems a little off putting to me.
Besides what about the other smells that could derive from a Forrest?
All the little critters that live there like squirrels, deer and rabbits for example – are they also part of the Christmas smell? And let’s not forget that if people take their dogs for walks in forests there could be other ‘smells’ associated with our Christmas trees that I certainly wouldn’t want my mince pies to remind me of!! (apologies if that put you off whatever you might be eating whilst reading this!)
Now if Heston had invented a Christmas smell like mulled wine, or cinnamon, cloves, or Christmas pudding then that would be more likely to get my mouth salivating. I know he likes to think ‘outside the box’ and come up with something totally different, which he has succeeded with here, but I am just not sure if a Christmas tree flavour is it for me.
So as much as its a wonderfully creative and festive baking idea, I don’t think I am persuaded to give the pine sugar dusting a go myself – the thought of eating a food I really like which has been topped with something which will remind me mostly of toilet cleaner is not appealing to my taste buds!!
How about you?
If you have tried this magical dust please tell me what you though of it, I am very curious to know if the concept really works.
DAY 29
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Thank you xx
Eww I don’t think I’d ever want to et something that smells of pine.
If it has Hestons name on it I’d eat it. I love him.
We don’t have a Waitrose round here, if we did I would go and buy this tomorrow, for the sake of research of course!
Love that picture of Bambi! How funny!
ooerr christmas tree smelling food ewwww
Totally agree, it sounds rank! But then I don’t really like the sound of anything Heston has created….snail porridge…yuk! x
That just sounds mank! I now have an image of pine loo cleaner on the mince pies!
I’ve just been given a box of these mince pies and I’m sitting here eating the pine sugar dusting on its own because it’s so DELICIOUS! I googled it to see if there were any recipes to create this stuff in the home kitchen, and your post was at the top of the results. It doesn’t remind me at all of toilet cleaner – more of a stroll through a snowbound spruce fairyland… I urge you to suspend your disbelief and try some!
How will any of you ever know unless you try them! Fools. The mans a genius.