Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Ruby Wedding Cake - A Call for Recipes!

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My parents are to celebrate their Ruby Wedding Anniversary (40 years) next month and I would like to bake for them a special cake, reminisce...
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Friday, August 13, 2010

Shooting Cake for the Glorious Twelfth

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Hello again, at long last I am here to bring you more baking and this time I am here with my junior chef, Ellis.  I confess that I have ...
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

I'm still here... only now I'm over here!

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Hello to readers old and new. It has been an AGE since I last posted, but with good reason. For the last, ooh, well over a year, I have be...
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Friday, August 08, 2008

Shetland Bride's Bonn/Bun or Bridal Cake

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Shetland bride's bonn/bun or bridal cake was traditionally baked by the mother of the bride. It was broken over the bride's head a...
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Monday, May 19, 2008

Deddington Pudding-Pie, Oxfordshire

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Earlier this month I was in Deddington , Oxfordshire. Deddington is a small market town with many interesting old buildings, houses and muc...
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Thursday, May 01, 2008

Banbury Cakes Revisited

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Whilst in Deddington, Oxfordshire, and already feeling inspired for my next post (I am obviously on a roll at the moment!), I came across a ...
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Saturday, April 26, 2008

Digestive Biscuits

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Digestive biscuits are one of our most popular commercially-baked biscuit varieties - the chocolate-coated version gets wolfed down in the U...
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Happy Birthday to Ellis...

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Our little boy turned one on Monday, and we held a family birthday tea the day before. Apart from the birthday boy himself, my attention ov...
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Shrove Tuesday Pancake Festival, Hitchin 2008

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Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday, is the final day pre-Lent. It is the day for clearing your cupboards of eggs and butter (hist...
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Friday, February 01, 2008

Scottish Shortbread

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Shortbread is a biscuit ‘shortened’ by the prodigious use of glorious butter. The texture of the biscuit is crisp and snappable- hence ‘sho...
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Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Christmas Cake (an escape to warmer climes)

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This year I wanted to bake a Christmas cake - my first. I have made Christmas puddings and mince pies aplenty, but despite having polished ...
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Friday, November 09, 2007

Parkin (or Perkin or Tharf cake)

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To follow on from my Orkney Broonie baking I have journeyed a few hundred miles south to the north of England, with one foot remaining in so...
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