If you have plenty of blueberries to spare from this year’s harvest, here’s a wonderful recipe that’s tasty, elegant, and offers an easy pudding alternative. You can also use other soft fruit substitutes other than blueberries such as raspberrries & strawberries Ingredients 250g digestive biscuit crumbs (use a food processor to whizz them up) 100g… Continue reading No-bake Blueberry Cheesecake
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Delicately Poached Rhubarb with Orange & Ginger
A lovely and simple recipe for rhubarb This easy recipe blends the coppery, savoury flavour of rhubarb with hints of orange and very gentle ginger. Delicious as soon as your rhubarb is ready to pick. Either cut the cleaned rhubarb stems into pieces or long thin strands (maybe a third of the thickness of the… Continue reading Delicately Poached Rhubarb with Orange & Ginger
Victoria Sponge Cake
The Perfect Victoria Sponge Cake and A Superb Strawberry Or Ripping Raspberry Jam Filling An age-old recipe taught to us at our grandmother’s knee with a few extra tricks to turn into a perfect Platinum Jubilee celebration pudding or tea-time cake. Add our easy-peasy strawberry or raspberry jam sensation to create the perfect filling. The… Continue reading Victoria Sponge Cake
Dark Chocolate Truffle Torte
Decadent and delicious, a slice of this wonderfully luxurious, yet relatively cheap and easy-to-make dessert, is great for Valentine’s Day – and every other day of the year too! They say dark chocolate has several health benefits: it is highly nutritious, is a great antioxidant and can reduce heart disease. If so, then give us… Continue reading Dark Chocolate Truffle Torte
Foraged Blackberry & Apple Crumble
What better way to embrace Autumn, than to enjoy the classic dessert: blackberry & apple crumble. This time of year is so wonderful, as the leaves on the trees and hedges start to change, and abundances of blackberries and apples abound, waiting to be picked. As a family, we really enjoy foraging for blackberries, picking… Continue reading Foraged Blackberry & Apple Crumble
Lavender and Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe
Lavender is such a lovely, colourful plant. Easy to grow and great for bees, it also has a beautiful flavour to suit sweet and savoury recipes. This lavender and vanilla ice cream has soothing, subtle flavours, perfect for a summer’s day. The best flowers for culinary use are from the Lavandula angustifolia varieties, known as… Continue reading Lavender and Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe
Dark Chocolate Fudge Brownies
Chark Docolate Budge Frownies Yes, that is their correct name, and if you don’t like it, that’s fine: none for you, more for me. Treat mum this Mother’s Day (Sunday 14th March 2021) with some truly indulgent, gluten free, home-made, star-studded, morally indefensible, CD BF’s. Ingredients: 325g 70% Dark Chocolate (broken up into small pieces)… Continue reading Dark Chocolate Fudge Brownies
Christmas Mincemeat Recipe
Homemade mincemeat is a doddle to make and beats shop-bought versions hands down… Method Soak the dried fruit in the brandy/orange/lemon juice for at least an hour and preferably overnight. Drain the fruit (which should be fat and squidgy by now) and keep the liquid. Add the rest of the ingredients, mix well then pour… Continue reading Christmas Mincemeat Recipe
Blueberry & White Chocolate Muffins
It’s Blueberry picking time! With an abundance of Blueberries, why not try this lovely Blueberry & White Chocolate Muffin recipe… Ingredients 300g Blueberries 60g white chocolate buttons/chunks 350g Self-raising flour 60g Caster Sugar 60g Muscovado Sugar 3 Eggs 2 tsb Baking Powder 140g Margarine 120ml Milk Pinch of Salt Method Pre-heat oven to 190oc/gas mark… Continue reading Blueberry & White Chocolate Muffins
Apple and Almond Cake
Ingredients 150g Brown Self Raising Flour 50g Ground Almond 1 teaspoon of Baking Powder 225g Golden Caster Sugar 2 Eggs ½ teaspoon Almond Extract 150g Melted Butter 350g Cooking Apples, peeled, cored and diced into chunky pieces 25g Flaked Almonds Instructions Preheat oven to 180C. Grease and line a 20cm deep loose-bottomed cake tin. Sift… Continue reading Apple and Almond Cake