Add 2 tablespoons of salad oil to your cake mixture, as this can keep the mixture moist and less crumbly.
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While staying at Broadoaks Country House Hotel I picked up some details they had on Lucy Cooks Cookery School, which was highly recommended. Lucy Cooks has created her very own celebration called 12 for 2012, in which during 2012, on the same date in the month as that month is within the year, ie February 2, March 3, April 4, May 5 June 6, July 7, August 8, September 9, October 10, November 11 and December 12, cookery classes will be held. The first 12 people to ring and book a full-day course will receive a 50% discount. However to…
The BBC Good Food Show this year is at Bluewater in Kent from 12-15th April for more details go to www.bbcgoodfoodshowspring.com The Spirit of Summer Fair at Olympia, London from 16th 0 19th May 2012, for more details go to www.spiritofsummerfair.co.uk The Essex Food Show at The Crown Plaza Resort in Colchester, Five Lakes on 12th – 13th May 2012 for more details go to www.theessexfoodshow.com The Royal Bath & West Society Show on 30th May – 2nd June, which includes a Royal Pie Competition ( I will cover this separately) for more details look on http://www.bathandwest.com More to come….
March is ‘Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month’, and they are asking you to make time for tea this month by holding a tea party and celebrate the revival of all things vintage, to help save the lives of the women we love. This year – the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee – they are inviting you to celebrate vintage glamour: fabulous frocks, retro crockery, kitsch cupcakes… Bring out the porcelain and get family, friends, and colleagues together for some classic fun at a quintessentially British tea party. The campaign which is now in it’s 7th year, with it’s vintage theme will be spearheaded…
We have just got back from a couple of days in the Lakes, (I know I’m totally spoilt)staying at ‘Broadoaks Country House’ Hotel in Troutbeck , Windermere. As you can see from the photos it is quite a stunning Hotel which was originally a gentlemen’s residence. It was built for a rich military man to reside during his summer breaks and was approximately resided in for six weeks of the year in its first forty years of life. It was sold in the late 1890Â’s to Dr Charles and Fanny Hodges. They gave the house a new lease of life…
I’m sooooooooooooo excited, I’ve just had an email from ‘theblogshop.co.uk’ that this blog has been short-listed for the ‘Best Use Of A Blog category of The Blogshop’s Best Blog Awards 2012! There’s nothing any of you can do to help me with this as it’s up to the judges to review my blog posts over the next two weeks. It will then be announced who has won or come second or third, but I’m just chuffed to bits that I’ve made it to a short-list. So, I’d just like to say thank you to any bloggers who voted for me.…
There are some really good offers around at the moment for teas and afternoon teas, so I thought I would share them with you. Clipper Teas are helping with the Fairtrade Fortnight by having competitions to win some fairtrade goodies. Divine Chocolates (Fairtrade Rich and Rare Chocolate Sets) is one competition and others are for wine and cereal bars. They are also holding a competition to win pants and say ‘Goodbye to Poverty’ which is another brilliant one. Just go to their website, www.clipper-teas.com/pants-to-poverty and you will find all the details. A company called ‘Afternoon Tea’, also has some amazing…
Another place that we popped into for some food in Banbury was The Old Auctioneer Pub, http://www.theoldauctioneerbanbury.co.uk/ and like everywhere we went to in this quaint village, it didn’t disappoint. You walk into a welcoming atmosphere and decor to help you relax in with modern furnishings to complement the traditional building features. They call it ‘a pub with pub values offered with style, charisma and personality’. The menu is a mix of great pub classics and modern English dishes, with sharing slates for informal dining and a great range of main. I enjoyed a fishfinger butty on their homemade bread…
Tang dynasty poet Lu Tung said of tea – “The first bowl moistens my lips and throat. The second bowl breaks my loneliness. The third bowl searches my barren brainÂ… The fourth cup raises a slight perspiration. The fifth cupÂ… purifies my bones and makes me feel light. The sixth cup links me to the realms of the immortals.” Â
Store cookies in an air tight tin with a slice of bread as the moisture from the bread will keep your cookies soft and fresh.
FOODIES DELI & TEA ROOM, Market Place, Deddington Oxfordshire OX15 0SA http://www.foodiesdeddington.co.uk/ On our way home from Banbury we had a slight detour to the village of Deddington to visit an Antique’s Centre, which I will write about tomorrow. After browsing the floors and floors of antiques we soon developed a thirst and were sent by the Antique Centre owner to ‘Foodies’ which was just down the road. The tea room offered a relaxed atmosphere, and a friendly table service. We decided to try what appeared to be very popular with the locals and both had a tea cake and…
Before putting your cake mixture into the oven, tap the cake tin on a counter to release any large air bubbles in the mixture.
Celebrity ‘Steppers’ go crazy during Fairtrade Fortnight (27 February to 11 March 2012) (Alistair McGowan, Jessica Hynes, Simon Webbe, Francesca ‘CheskaÂ’ Hull, Kate Walsh, Natalie Pinkham, Di Dougherty, Darren Bennett and Lilia Kopylova, Will Clarke and Louisa Lytton). As the country counts down to Fairtrade Fortnight (27 February – 11 March), a series of hilarious, celebrity- films will be hitting the web on YouTube this week to encourage the public to take 1.5 million steps for Fairtrade in 2012. Through the ‘Take A Step for FairtradeÂ’ campaign, the Fairtrade Foundation wants to see more individuals and businesses buying and selling…
Twinings Ad – Gets You Back To You From: TwiningsTeaUK | Feb 24, 2012 | 31735 views The latest Twinings Ad from the Gets You Back To You campaign. Featuring ‘American folk-rock starlet’ Lissie singing a cover of Fleetwood Mac’s “Go Your Own Way” download your copy from itunes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkwIMTtHV0Q&feature=player_embedded
Fairtraide fortnight is a chance to get involved and shout about all things Fairtrade!!! Its about improving trade for farmers in developing countries by ensuring they get better prices and better working conditions. It helps to improve their lives and prevent discrimination against poorer producers. Boostingawareness of this will help to get the Fairtrade Message heard. ‘2012’s theme is ‘Take a Step’ by simply swapping your usual groceries for a Fairtrade brand. (I swapped my usual supermarket roses for some fairtrade ones yesterday). For more details and lots of ideas on how to raise awareness go to the website http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/