Recipes

ohhh gogs wonderful will make it yum yum my own chocolate for xmas

In-house advisor made our Christmas cake last week. We must be the only ones that like alcohol free cakes and puddings.

Just made a family Chritmas cake recipe that has been passed on to me.6oz marg 6oz castor sugar 4 eggs 8oz Raisons 1lb sultanas 4oz currants#6-8oz glace cherries9oz plain Flour 1teaspoon Baking powder 1teasp of gravy browning to help make it a darker cake.I left this out.Beat Marg &Sugar...

Lazy baking easy good and tasty too have to try the ginger. Pleased you got a slice.

A variation on Wildflower's apple and cinamon scones is to simply dice an uncooked apple and add it to the scone mixture. Baking cooks the little chunks and you end up with a scone with lots of sweet surprises inside.

I agree with Windy!

Rudy,well done what fantastic cakes.you are in the wrong job :D :D I hope you take them into work to sell them

There is an old Yorkshire saying about eating duck"When thow ast duck there wants to be two on yee - thee an 't duck"Well - trouble is with goose its much the same, when mum used to cook it for Christmas dinner she would also do a big piece of pork too (cooked in the goose fat) as there was...

Excellent, wildflower!

TONIC WINESTonic Wines are very much like a tincture - herbs are used to fill a clean jar / vat, over which wine (or port) is poured so that the herb is completely covered and the level of the wine is above the top of the herbs. Close securely and leave to mature for at least 1 month....

I have managed to train a man to grow it for me for the last two years..... LOVE IT!bit of olive oil, bit of butter, salt and pepper and roast - heaven!I do loads so I can freeze it, but I end up picking at it cold and non ever gets as far as the freezer - great idear thouigh1

Pete - have just come back to this thread.I don't know what species we have, only that it is a blue-flowering sort.

Hello, I love pickled beetroot, M-in-L very kindly pickled ours this year. I bought white malt vinegar to use and they were scrummy.

I made some soup for my friends yesterday and it went down very well so I thought I would share the recipe as some of you are not short of squash and pumpkin.Spicey Squash Soupmakes 8 hearty portions1 squash weighing 1.2kg cut into 1" cubes 2 small pumpkin (about 500g) cut into 1" cubes 2...

fancy apparently you have to be careful and know what you are picking and i like you have never heard of them before

I found this recipe on the internet, made it and my son was so impressed, he and his mates have been experimenting using strawberries, apples and other fruits.1 1/2 lbs raspberries, whizzed in a blender 1 cup of water 2 cups of sugar 1/4 cup of lime juice.Melt the sugar & water in a pan on...

Here's one for Zucchini lovers ...Ingredients 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 4 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder 1 tsp baking soda 1 tsp baking powder 1 tsp salt 1 tsp cinnamon 1 tsp instant coffee grounds (optional enhances the flavor of the chocolate) 1/2 cup butter, softened 1/2 cup vegetable...

Just done a bit of reading around and some folks add lemon juice to slow down browning or oxydisation, but since citric acid is the worst migraine trigger I know, we have never bothered. As long as you freeze the juice fairly quickly then there does not seem to be a problem, unless you want pure...

Elderberry Jelly1250 ml juice 500g 3:1 preserving sugar *boil for 4 minutes as instructions sayadd 1 TBL lime juice at the end and stir wellbottle hot in the usual way* We can get this special sugar everywhere here but it is not to be had in GB, I did ask the makers here. They sent...