I got back into my kitchen this week. I’ve been out of it due to a 35c heatwave and to look at the rain beating down now, you would never know. The first thing I baked was out of my Nanas book. Bakewell Tart. No almonds in this one though and I have to say
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Recipe provided by Emma Page Ingredients 250 ml water 900 g mixed fruit 225 g sugar 170 g butter 230 g plain flour 1teaspoon bicarbonate soda 1 teaspoon mixed spice 2 eggs Instructions Boil the water, sugar, fruit, and butter for 10 mins. Sift the flour then add the boiled ingredients and mix all in
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It’s the Weekend! And as I said on Feed Yourself for £1 a day, I will attempt to put a recipe on every weekend. My son has Aspergers and textures play a huge part in our meals. Something that has been a problem over time is rice. This seemed to cure a lot of the
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I swore that while the temperature was 32 degrees, the oven was NOT going to be used, I even prepped in advance. Well, that lasted until 8 am when the discovery of ‘nothing sweet in the house’ prompted Gas Mark 4. I wasn’t about to hang about, my mixer is always on the worktop and
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I haven’t made a quiche since nineteen hundred and frozen to death, the obligatory cookery lesson, driven by a particularly nasty teacher who wielded a metal fish slice like a Samurai warrior. She didn’t inspire me much, thank goodness for Mum, my aunt and various other mother figures. I remember foil lining round dinner trays
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When my Nanan died, her cookbooks went to my mum. She’s no great baker so passed it to me. My ‘bible’ is a 1940 copy of Modern Cookery, complete with inserted additional recipes including a small pile of Stork Cookery Notes. This is from cooking with honey pamphlet dated August 1951 This one will set
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My husband and son love something sweet after their main meal so this should do them for about 4 days. It costs out at about £1.12 per cake which will be cut into 8 nicely. Equipment and Oven Temperature 2 lb loaf tin or 7 in cake tin Oven Gas mark 4 or 160 c
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Many people have questions about bread makers and making bread in a bread-making machine. Hopefully, I can answer a few of them. A long time ago I bought my first bread-making machine. It sounded like an answer to a dream. I remember I bought it from a “club book” for those of you who remember
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Easy Peasy Pastry really is the simplest, easiest, less messy, quick version of making a simple shortcrust pastry Are you one who often runs out of basic ingredients then wants to bake? If so, as long as you have flour and oil, this is the recipe for you. Ingredients 100 ml cooking oil(vegetable oil,sunflower oil
There really is nothing as lovely as fresh warm homemade quiche, or chilled quiche with a salad if preferred. I always consider quiche suitable for any meal and often like a slice for a snack, a quick meal or for supper. Lovely served warm with homemade wedges and salad tomatoes. Ingredients Half of a batch
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