Recipes
Apple Crumble Cake
This is a very quick and easy dessert to make. Equally delicious warm or cold, best served with vanilla ice cream, cream or custard. This is a very morish dish and it can be quite difficult to know when to stop eating. Ingredients 250g unsalted butter, quiet simply the better the butter, the better the cake […]
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Paul Hollywood’s Baked Somerset Brie
Recipe from Paul Hollywood’s British Baking Cookbook, available from most good bookshops and online. This is a great way to enjoy one of the excellent Bries produced in Somerset and Cornwall. A medium (13–15cm diameter) cheese is wrapped in Parma ham, then in an enriched bread dough, and baked. Choose a slightly firm Brie for this […]
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Jam Roly Poly Pudding
Just where would a Northern cookbook be without the lush jam Roly-Poly??…It would be “plain stooped” to ignore this joyous amalgamation of suet and Raspberry Jam, smothered in home made custard. Ingredients: 8oz (250g) Self raising Flour. Pinch Salt. 40z (125g) Shredded Suet. 6-8 Tablespoons of Water. 4 Tablespoons Warmed Raspberry Jam. A little Milk. […]
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Soda Bread
Soda bread Ireland’s most famous bread is made with two of its oldest foods, wheat and buttermilk. The acid in the buttermilk reacts with the bicarbonate of soda and creates the rise. If you have kids, do teach them how to make soda bread, because it’s great to be able to put a loaf on […]
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Goats Cheese and Leek Rarebit
A variation on the classic recipe brings this traditional favourite bang up to date. Goats’ cheese comes in a variety of guises. Choose a mild, creamy one without a crust so it will easily melt into the sauce. If you can get it use Y Fenni cheese which contains mustard seed and ale. Ingredients 2 […]
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Oatmeal Drop Scones
I love cooking drop scones on a griddle. Try these for breakfast, as a change from porridge. As long as you remember to soak the oatmeal in the buttermilk the night before, you can have them ready very quickly. Just don’t cook them at too high a heat, or the outside will burn before the […]
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Rhubarb and Custard Cheesecake
Head back down memory lane with this sweet shop inspired dessert Ingredients 225g digestive biscuits, finely crushed 100g melted butter 450g rhubarb, plus 6 extra sticks, cut into 1cm pieces 200g light soft brown sugar Juice of ½ a lemon 3 leaves of gelatine, soaked in cold water (6g total weight) 450g cream cheese or […]
