Friday, February 10, 2006

Cornish Fairing biscuits

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Cornwall has quite a list of intriguing sounding foodstuffs: Licky Pasty (leek pasty) Star Gazy Pie (pie made with herring, mackerel or...
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Sunday, January 29, 2006

Custard Tarts

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My inspiration for this round of baking came from a trip to Portugal. I was lucky enough to spend five days in Lisbon over Christmas. One ...
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Sunday, January 22, 2006

Chocolate Encore

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Yesterday was very pleasurably spent working my way through my EBBP box of chocolate goodies. As an aside I would also like to mention the ...
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Saturday, January 21, 2006

EBBP3 - Comforting Food Parcels

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This was my first time participating in Euro Blogging By Post, organised on this occasion by Johanna of Passionate Cook . Thank you Johanna...
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Sunday, January 01, 2006

Scottish Black Bun - Happy New Year!

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I have never participated in Hogmanay , which is the name given to Scottish New Year celebrations, and which has its own traditions and cust...
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Sunday, December 18, 2005

'Noson Gyflaith' - Welsh toffee making

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Early on Christmas morning Welsh Protestants held a carol service known as 'plygain' (as opposed to the Catholic Mass). This serv...
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Sunday, December 04, 2005

Mince Pies (pre-Christmas baking)

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Mince pies have been associated with Christmas since at least the 17th century. In 1662 Samuel Pepys wrote a diary entry for the 6th of Janu...
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Sunday, November 20, 2005

Grasmere Gingerbread from Cumbria

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Today is 'Stir-up Sunday', the traditional day for making your Christmas pudding to give it time to mature. I shall be in Portugal ...
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Sunday, November 13, 2005

1916 Trench Cake - Remembrance Sunday

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This posting is perhaps as good an example of 'baking for Britain' as you can get. The recipe is from Elizabeth Craig's book ...
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Sunday, November 06, 2005

Remember, remember the 5th of November...

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...For my first meeting with other UK food bloggers. A rendezvous set up by Sam of Becks Posh Nosh (Sam is a Brit abroad, but she was in t...
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