~ Seasonal fragrance and flavour from my country kitchens in England and France....celebrating local seasonal produce with traditional feasts and festivals, culinary notes, reviews, recipes and musings from home and abroad....whilst preparing family food with flair ~
The Coffee Challenge with De’Longhi: Italian Coffee Mocha Kisses and Brandy Snaps There is nothing as nice as afternoon tea, unless it happens to be afternoon coffee. I am a bit of a tea and coffee snob, and only drink the best stuff, made in a tea-pot for tea and in a cafetière for coffee. So, when [...]
May Tea Time Treats: The Biscuit Tin and Cookie Jar! Biscuits and Cookies Welcome to May’s Challenge for Tea Time Treats! After a HUGE and very successful April with Kate, who was the Fairy Cake and Cup Cake queen, we decided to go crisp and buttery for May, and so the theme this month is: [...]
Posh Jam Biscuits! Jammie Daisy Dodgers (Biscuits/Cookies) Recipe Jammie Dodgers: Jammie Dodgers are a popular British biscuit, made from shortbread with a raspberry flavoured jam filling. They are currently produced by Burton’s Biscuit Company at its factory in Llantarnam. In 2009 Jammie Dodgers were the most popular children’s sweet biscuit brand in the United Kingdom, with 40% of the years’ sales consumed by adults. A buttery [...]
Red Nose Day: Do Something Funny for Money! Red Nose Bunnies (Biscuits/Cookies) Recipe Red Nose Day is nearly upon us – in about two weeks time, we will all be able to wear red noses to work, meet friends for lunch wearing them, as well as sleep in them if that’s what floats your boat! Red [...]
A Cup of Tea and a Biscuit: Jumbles (Chocolate Chip and Oatmeal Biscuits/Cookies) Recipe I love these biscuits (cookies), they are a real blast from the past and I have fond memories of them from my childhood – making these oaty morsels with my grandmother and my mum. These are not to be confused with Leicestershire Bosworth [...]
The Big Tea Time Random Recipes Round-Up! Cakes, Pies and Biscuits……. Thirty days ago, I announced that the September Tea Time Treats challenge was joining forces with Dom from Random Recipes for one fun filled month, and here we are a month later, with a plethora of pies, cakes, biscuits, cookies, bakes and even chutney! So, [...]
The Big Fair Bake and Tropical Wholefoods: Tropical Fruit Flapjack Slices for a Tea Time Treat! It’s been a busy month for me and I am way behind with my Sepia Saturday posts; for those of you who don’t know what they are, it’s my weekly attempt to bake my way through seventy to eighty [...]
~ Sepia Saturday ~ Eighty Years of Baking with Be-Ro Melting Moments (Biscuits/Cookies) Recipe I have had this idea for several months, but I decided to launch my Sepia Saturday after entering Dom’s Random Recipes last month – we all had to “show and tell” about our cookbooks and I duly complied with my post [...]
World Baking Day Sunday 20th May 2012 Some Cakes & Bakes from my Recipe Box! Apparently it’s World Baking Day today – and you can find out all about it here: World Baking Day and #Caking. Any day that is a baking day is GOOD for me, as I LOVE baking and can often be [...]
The prize included Wafer Daisies and Hundreds and Thousands as seen on my cakes A Cake Decorating Giveaway! Dr Oetker Cake & Baking Decorations to Celebrate Easter & Spring Win some great DR Oetker Decorations as used by me over Easter in these lovely little cakes and a BIG Clandestine Cake Club cake too! To [...]
Karen S Booth
