Baking
Afternoon Tea Week: Green Tea
 The question is are there any other foods or drink that have been reported to have as many health benefits as green tea? The Chinese have known about the medicinal benefits of green tea […]
Month: August 2024
Afternoon Tea Week
Afternoon Tea Week: Making White Bread
Day 2 of our afternoon tea week. Yesterday we served up some traditional homemade recipes for scones. Today we look at making some basic and easy bread making. Tomorrow we will look at sandwich fillers […]
Baking
Afternoon Tea Week: Black Tea
Black tea is the term used to describe a variety of tea that undergoes a more extensive oxidation process than green, oolong and white teas. All of these tea varieties are actually made from the […]
National Week
Afternoon Tea Week: Scones
Happy Afternoon Tea Week!! Scones have become synonymous with afternoon tea over many years, so what better way to start off our celebrations all week than to put together a few vintage recipes of scones […]
Baking
National Bakewell Tart Day
It’s National Bakewell Tart Day! What’s the difference between a Bakewell tart and a cherry Bakewell? According to erudus.com, ‘A Cherry Bakewell is a version of the Bakewell tart where a layer of almond fondant […]
Apple
Vintage Recipes: Adam and Eve Pudding
Welcome to our vintage recipe slot. This week we are taking a recipe from the Marshall Cavendish Supercook Encyclopedia Of World Cooking APPLE AND SPONGE PUDDING A traditional, inexpensive English pudding, this is an appealing […]
Baking
National Swiss Roll Day (Sweden)
August 9th is National Swiss Roll Day. According to Slurp, Swiss roll is a type of sponge cake that is commonly served as a dessert or snack. It is also known as a jelly roll, […]
National Days
National Rice Pudding Day (USA)
CREAM OF RICE GARNISHED WITH CHERRIES AND BANANA SLICES (Riz Montmorency) Here’s a great recipe from 1971 taken from the archives of Fanny & Johnnie Cradocks cookery program The recipe asks for Patna rice but […]
Tea Companies
The Cornish Scone Company
With National Afternoon Tea week almost upon us (starts the 12th August), I thought I’d give a ‘shout out’ to a local scone company from Cornwall that I stumbled upon. A small family business that […]
Uncategorized
Fancy a Biscuit? Garibaldi Recipe
Garibaldi biscuits are a firm favourite with an afternoon tea. These biscuits were invented by Huntley & Palmer in 1864. Although, according to historical records, the biscuits are a British invention, the name itself is […]
Baking
1960's Food
Chocolate
Old Ads: Cadbury’s Bournville Cocoa
Here’s a collection of old advertisements from the late 1940’s up to the early 70s promoting Cadbury’s Bournville Cocoa . Some of these ads include recipes which I’ve enlarged for you to use. Back in […]