Baking

Traditional Scottish Shortbread Petticoat Tails

Old-Fashioned Ovaltine Tea Loaf

Mincemeat & Marzipan Biscuits (Cookies)

Christmas Scones with Marzipan & Mincemeat

Poor Knights of Windsor (with Mincemeat)

Salted Caramel Apple Bread & Butter Pudding

Celebrating the BER months with Homemade Jam Recipes

Welcome! I'm Karen; it’s lovely to see you here. I was born in South Africa, but I've lived all over the world, latterly calling North Yorkshire my home where I lived for many years before moving to SW France, although I'm now living in the Lincolnshire Wolds, a designated area of outstanding natural beauty, in an old Victorian cottage. I am a freelance food and travel writer, as well as a food stylist, and recipe developer, with a passion for art, travel, books, photography, seasonal food and especially cheese and wine. Please do get in contact with me if you have any questions about my work or commissioning me. Read More…

Empire Biscuits

Sticky Marmalade Tea Loaf

Traditional Scottish Shortbread Petticoat Tails

Old-Fashioned Ovaltine Tea Loaf

Mincemeat & Marzipan Biscuits (Cookies)

Christmas Scones with Marzipan & Mincemeat

Poor Knights of Windsor (with Mincemeat)

Liverpool Bun Loaf

Regency Rout Cakes

Northumbrian Harvest Tea Loaf

Traditional Soul Cakes

Salted Caramel Apple Bread & Butter Pudding

Traditional Stottie Cake

Old Fashioned Currant Buns

Celebrating the BER months with Homemade Jam Recipes