~ 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 ~
A “Secret” Baked Layer Cake: Scottish Rhubarb & Ginger Crunchy Streusel Cake Recipe The lovely Scottish preserves company Mackays sent me a selection of jams and curds recently with the suggestion that I bake something with them, as part of their #bakingwithmackays challenge, as well as creating a new recipe to be shared on their [...]
Sepia Saturday with Be-Ro, Tea Time Treats and Rich Jam and Coconut Cake Recipe It’s Saturday and it’s Sepia, as in Sepia Saturday, the weekly baking challenge where I attempt to bake my way through eighty years of Be-Ro cookbooks……although, I have not posted a Be-Ro bake for the last three weeks due to travelling and other [...]
~ A Provence Summer Preserve ~ French Set Apricot and Lavender Jam (Confiture) Heady perfumed lavender fields, rolling hills of thyme and oregano, hot sun, dusty paths, aching backs and grape stained fingers, hawks sitting on hay bales, the distant throb of a tractor, diesel, warm hands and faces, rich pate, crusty bread, herb scented rillettes, metallic [...]
Sweet Easter Treats for Easter Week….. Cake, Hot Cross Buns, Eggs & Floral Baking Gifts After my HUGE March Tea Time Treats round-up posts here – Tea Time Treats Part one and Part Two, I am taking a bit of a holiday today, and thought that a really useful and helpful article might be to [...]
Apple & Ginger Jam Book Review – First Preserves by Vivien Lloyd – I love preserves, both making them and eating them; I am an avid jam, jelly, marmalade, curd, chutney and pickles maker and every year when the soft fruits and orchard fruits are in season, I can be found cutting, chopping, weighing, [...]
- Chocolate Ale Fruit Cake – Baking Mad and Eric Lanlard The new series of Baking Mad with Eric Lanlard is due to start on 5th March at 12:05pm on Channel 4 for every week day for 4 weeks. The new series will appeal to bakers of every kind from the novice to the expert. [...]
The New Tea Time Treats Challenge for March SCONES! Savoury and Sweet Happy St David’s Day and welcome to the NEW Tea Time Treats baking blog challenge for March, which is, SCONES! Scones, the mainstay of a cream tea……easy and cheap to make and best eaten warm; who doesn’t love these light little morsels. In [...]
Alchemy & Stained Glass Windows…. Home-Made Quince Jelly A short but sweet post today as I am very busy ~ the preserving has nearly been done and I am now moving on to “doing stuff” with some of the excess vegetables I have lurking in the pantry, hidden in buckets and old orange cartons and [...]
The Breakfast Club, Boozy Toast, Poor Knights of Windsor, Pain Perdu or French Toast? Join in HERE! I am breakfasting like a poor Knight today, but with a regal history though; my entry for The Breakfast Club this month is Poor Knights of Windsor served with home-made raspberry jam, a decadent little breakfast treat and [...]
Karen S Booth
