Mar 28
This Easter I decided to have an afternoon tea for family on the Sunday. So it was a good opportunity to crack some of the recipes in the party finger food section. I started with the cheese ball recipe. (Page 197). I hadn’t made this recipe before because it had a few things that I …
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Mar 28
Ingredients 2 heaped tablespoons onion, chopped 2 rashers streaky bacon, chopped 3 cups cheese (I used mild today) 1 egg Salt and pepper 1 tablespoon oil 8 slices toast bread Margarine or butter Chopped parsley Method Heat oil in a frying pan and add the onion and bacon. Cook until the onion is transparent. Allow …
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Mar 22
For the last couple of weeks I have had a real urge to make a cheesecake and today I finally remembered to get some cream cheese with the groceries so I decided to make the cheesecake recipe on page 204. The recipe is simply called cheesecake and reading through the recipe it seems to make …
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Mar 20
It’s almost Good Friday which means it’s almost time when we can legitimately eat hot cross buns. Woo! Every year I give making hot cross buns a whirl but I have never found a recipe that ticks all my boxes. In my opinion hot cross buns should be soft, spicy with a nice amount of …
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Mar 20
Ingredients 200 ml milk 100 ml boiling water 15 g (1 tblsp) butter, softened 1 tblsp surebake yeast 450 g High grade flour 2 tblsp brown sugar 1 tsp salt 1 tblsp mixed spice 1 tsp cinnamon ½ tsp ground nutmeg 2/3 cup currants ½ cup sultanas ¼ cup mixed peel, chopped For crosses 25 …
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Mar 15
I love corn. It is seriously one of my favourite foods in the whole entire world. If I could only eat one thing for the rest of my life, corn would be that thing. Although I would rather have corn by itself, every now and then I will make sweetcorn fritters to get my corn …
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Mar 15
Ingredients 1 cup flour 1 tsp baking powder 1 egg 1 cup milk 1 tin of corn kernels or 2 cups of frozen corn Salt and pepper Method Sift the dry ingredients into a large bowl. Make a well in the middle and break in the egg. Add the milk and mix until well combined. …
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Mar 12
I remember as a child on a rare occasion being given crumpets with golden syrup on top as a treat. I loved the way the syrup and margarine would mix together and soak right through the crumpets they were unlike anything I had had before with their odd spongey, bubbly texture. I hardly ever get …
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Mar 12
Yeast Mix 125 ml water 125 ml milk 2 tsp caster sugar 2 tsp dried yeast Flour Mixture 1½ cups flour ½ tsp salt Baking Soda Mixture ½ tsp baking soda 125 ml warm water Method Prepare the yeast mixture by warming the water and milk until lukewarm then add the sugar and yeast. Stir. …
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Mar 09
For the last few days I have had the head cold that seems to come when summer gives way to autumn – made a little more miserable by a day long power cut yesterday. A slight issue was working out what recipes I could test that only required the gas hob since the oven was out. …
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