Luscious Leek and Pasta Sort-of-Bake
I was in London when it started snowing, staying with a friend in her small bedsit and we turned the lights out and stood at the window watching the snow and drinking our… Read More
Category Archive: Winter Warmers
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Royal Icing (on a Christmas Cake fit for Three Kings!)
At last, the end is in sight (as regards the Christmas Cake) and we’ve now reached the final hurdle – icing. It’s incredibly easy or incredibly difficult depending on how you want your… Read More
Magnificent Marzipan
This post serves a dual purpose – for those of you who have been cooking along, so to speak, and have made the Christmas Cake that seems to have taken over the blog… Read More
Christmas Cake – feeding and care
Advent has begun! I can now legitimately and without shame enjoy Christmas for a full 24 days. I spent the evening of the 1st of December wandering the streets of London giggling like… Read More
Gorgeous Gingerbread
When I was very small, my aunt made a gingerbread village for Christmas, with melted boiled sweets for windows and an icing sugar sprinkle of snow on the roofs and streets. Most magical… Read More
Traditional rich and fruity Christmas Cake (part 2)
As promised here is the second half of the Christmas Cake endeavour. Today I committed the afternoon to cake baking and filled the house with the smell of warm fruit cake. It’s traditional… Read More
Traditional rich and fruity Christmas Cake (part 1)
I recently had a friend to stay, who mentioned in conversation that I love Christmas. When I put it to her that surely everyone loves Christmas she rolled her eyes and said “yes,… Read More
Super Duper Sloe Gin
Earlier in the year I showed you what to look for when finding your sloe bushes and advised you to hunt them down then ready for the autumn. Well in the words of… Read More
Beech Noyau Recipe
My mother has a rather ancient cake tin with quotes and little paintings ranged around the outside, these are ingrained in my memory now, and whilst in winter I’m comforted by the quote… Read More
REMINDER. Beech Noyau
Since I reminded you to keep your eyes open for Blackthorn blossom a few weeks ago, many other things have started to flicker into life along the hedgerows and suddenly you won’t be able… Read More
