Baking for Britain

Baking my way round the United Kingdom, trying out regional specialities, traditional ingredients etc., and generally making (and sampling) nice things to eat in the cake, biscuit and bun line. Now with the assistance of my junior chef, Ellis.

Thursday, July 26, 2007

Bloggers For Positive Global Change

I have been nominated by Amanada of Figs Olives Wine for a Bloggers for Positive Global Change award. Wow! - what a honour to be so highly...

Thursday, July 19, 2007

Bath Buns

And so we dance a graceful minuet across the country, to take our places within another of the eighteenth century’s spa pleasure resorts – B...

Saturday, June 09, 2007

Tunbridge Wells Wafers (or Romary Biscuits)

The family bakery of Alfred Romary was responsible for the wafer biscuit exported from the Kent spa town of Tunbridge Wells ( Royal Tunbridg...

Friday, May 04, 2007

Shrewsbury Cakes from Shropshire

Much of my information about Shrewsbury cakes/biscuits has come from ‘The Taste of Britain’ , by Laura Mason and Catherine Brown. For anyo...

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Easter Treat

For my first posting after my young man’s arrival, I am going to keep things fairly simple. I am also writing under a tut-tutting of disap...

Saturday, March 17, 2007

Truly Scrumptious

I have had a busy old time of it since my last posting. At the end of the second week of February, we at last were able to move to our new ...

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Honey Tea Bread

Motherhood shortly pending, last Friday was my final day at work. I am lucky enough to be able to take twelve months' maternity leave, ...

Sunday, January 14, 2007

Coventry Godcakes

Godcakes seem to be peculiar to Coventry, although similar pastries known as God's Kitchels (or Kichels) have an association with the Su...

Sunday, December 03, 2006

Apple Gingerbread with Cinnamon Icing

Well, I'm afraid it has been a little while since my last post. Of late it has been difficult to find a weekend with enough time free t...

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Holywake Bake Cake

Ginger, long a popular flavouring in British cookery, was just one of the smaller things that we have the Romans to thank for first bringing...

Sunday, October 22, 2006

Rock Cakes & Biscuits

When poorly advised persons think of British baking, it may well be that monstrously hard rock cakes, rejected by even the dog, are what suc...

Sunday, October 08, 2006

Kentish Cobnut Cake

...try saying that with your mouth full. A cobnut is a type of hazelnut. The Kentish Cob variety, is ,however, not a hazelnut but a filbert ...

Sunday, September 24, 2006

Seed Cake

Just in time for your harvest supper... Seed cake is a plain sponge flavoured with caraway seeds, and maybe including some mixed peel. The t...

Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Herefordshire Cider Cake

We apparently have the Norman Conquest of 1066 to thank for cider; although maybe it is now a bit late for a 'merci'? The Normans b...

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