Historical Recipes

Making Winter, Baking with Mum and Wee Whisky Doused Hogmanay Dundee Cakes

More Spooky Family Food with a Traditional All Hallows’ Eve Supper ~ Mash O’ Nine Sorts

Gifts in a Jar ~ Mixed Spice ~ Old Fashioned English Pudding Spice

The Scented Home, Flowers and Boozy Mincemeat for Let’s Make Christmas

Books, Films and Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Harvest Home, A Seasonal Bake for the Autumn Table, Harvest Apple Cake

National Curry Week, The Gurkhas and Kukhra Alainchi Sanga ~ Chicken Cardamom Curry ~

Last of the Quinces, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Baked Quince Compote with Vanilla

Alchemy and Stained Glass Windows…..Home-made Quince Jelly

Michaelmas, Blackberries, Devils Spit Day and Michaelmas Dumplings

Pies, Simple Simon Met a Pieman ~ Raised Chicken and Ham Pie

The Autumn Garden, Windfalls and Old Fashioned Scottish Apple and Ginger Chutney

The Country Child by Alison Uttley and Staffordshire Oatcakes – Traditional English Hotcakes – Pancakes

Nursery Puddings, Slow Sunday and Old Fashioned Baked Rice Pudding

Traditional 18th Century Raspberry Creams and Happy Hens!

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…