Its Bramely Apple Week 5th – 12th February, 2012. We all love the truly British Bramley apple but I bet you didnÂ’t know that the first Bramley apple tree was grown from pips planted in 1809 by Mary Ann Brailsford, in the garden at her home in Nottinghamshire (not far from me). Over the years the house changed hands and in 1856 while a butcher called Matthew Bramley was living in the house a gentleman called Henry Merryweather asked Mr Bramley if he could take some cuttings from the apple tree and start to sell the apples. Mr Bramley agreed…
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An £11 Afternoon Tea in Covent Garden is on offer which is 30% off and exclusive to www.afternoontea.co.uk Afternoon Tea at Kingsway Hall Hotel is located in the heart of London close to Covent Garden and within walking distance of the West End and Theatre Land. Until 29th February, Kingsway Hall are offering 30% off their Afternoon Tea, exclusively for AfternoonTea.co.uk customers – that’s just £11.17 per person (normally £15.95). Afternoon Tea is available from 12pm until 7pm daily and includes the following: â– a selection of finger sandwiches â– oven-warmed plain & fruit scones with clotted cream & strawberry preserve â– the…
Short and Sweet is a book on the best of home baking. This is Dan LepardÂ’s first book but he certainly seems to know his stuff. ItÂ’s filled with mouth-watering sweet and savoury recipes as well as a host of tips and tricks. With gorgeous inspiring pictures to browse through, you will soon be popping the pinney on and getting the baking tins out. A great book for Mothers Day.
Ingredients 125g (4oz) unsalted butter, softened 125g (4oz) light muscovado sugar 2 large eggs, beaten lightly 50g (2oz) apple sauce 3 ripe bananas, mashed 1 ½ teasp cinnamon 150g (5oz) Plain Flour 1tsp Baking Powder Method Preheat oven to 180C (160fan) Mark 4 Line loaf tin or grease Beat the butter and sugar in a large bowl with an electric whish until pale and creamy Gradually whisk in the eggs then the apple sauce Stir in the bananas Sift in the flour, cinnamon and baking powder then fold together with a large metal spoon Bake for 50mins – 1 hour…
‘Can I Eat ItÂ’? (UK) is a brilliant app for £1.99 which is for people with allergies, diet or religious beliefs. This barcode-scanning app speeds the process by serving up essential information on ingredients. The database is fairly extensive when it comes to well known brands and you can set exactly what you need to find, including gluten and nuts, halal and kosher choices, and Fairtrade and organic information. A must for someone with a food intolerance/allergy. ‘WaitroseÂ’ has a brilliant one which is FREE. It contains over 200 recipes (with new ones added weekly) from Delia Smith and Heston…
If you have not seen the biscuiteers website then you will be amazed how unique and clever their take is on biscuits. We all love biscuits but www.biscuiteers.com take biscuits to another level. You can say ‘happy birthdayÂ’ to ‘sorryÂ’ in biscuits and for Valentines day you can have a giant tin of personalised love chocolates or biscuits or a biscuit card, to name a few. Their delicious chocolates are hand iced like their biscuits and all make unique gifts. They now also have cheese to go with your biscuits and cakes. If you were looking for something a bit…
Numero Uno has to be the legendary Bettys in Harrogate. Here you will learn how to make cakes the Bettys way. There is a choice of course to choose one just visit the website for more details, www.bettyscookeryschool.co.uk Lucy Cooks has an array of baking courses, from creating afternoon teas to perfect cakes, at her school in the Lake District. For dates and more details 015384 32288 or visit www.lucycooks.co.uk they also have a course which includes a three-day stay at Lingmoor Guesthouse. Newlyns Cookery School in Hampshire will help you make perfect pastry with their biscuits and cake courses.…
Just like pop up shops, pop up food markets are literally ‘popping up’. They are a cross between a farmers market and a pop up restaurant and a sit down rave. The food ‘rodeo’ will see several mobile food trucks parked up in one spot. The Long Table, in Dalston, East London, was the first to start the trend, but now it’s starting to grow nationwide. http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/oct/12/pop-up-temporary-shops-restaurants
When making scones cover freshly baked ones with a slightly damp tea towel. This will help to keep them light and soft. When baking a cake in a loaf tin, rather than buying expensive liners use silver foil instead. Just get the mould of the tin by putting the foil on the outside of the tin then transfer it inside for a perfect fit.
Birt and Tang Tea www.birtandtang.co.uk are offering a 25% discount online if you enter the code ‘new year’ voucher code at the checkout. Two featured teas Raspberry and Lavender is an infusion with a hint of Lavender. They also have a ‘Ginseng Leaf’ with the berry goodness of blackcurrants. They also have an unusual way for people to decide ‘who’s making the tea’. They have a bespoke Tea Pot ‘Luck Random Tea-maker Generator which will resolve the problem of whose turn it is. All you do is set up a group online with friends, work mates or family and the…
Cupcake decorating workshop called ‘Tea Party’ is a cupcake workshop where you will create edible bunting (vintage style) and mould sugar tea pots, tea cups and saucers as well as creating sugar plaques and gingham tablecloths. You will also be treated to their signature served of course, on ‘Vintage’ china. Classes are held in Melbourne, Derbyshire www.vintageandcake.co.uk b
It keeps the eye wakeful, the head clear, animates the intellectual powers. Thomas Short – Discourse on Tea
I don’t know if your like me put if you love your food but hate the waste then this brilliant website is just for you. www.lovefoodhatewaste.com has ingenious solutions, like tips on getting portion sizes right and on the best way of keeping, freezing and using up leftovers. It also provides you with free recipes that are based around using up stray vegetables, and other bits and bobs that might otherwise go in the bin. Just select the ingredient you have left over, say potatoes, carrots and cheese and then up pops a recipe for them. It couldn’t be simpler.
What a lovely surprise I had when I arrived home yesterday. A parcel from ‘Honeybuns’, www.honeybuns.co.uk with some goodies in it for me. The cake slices choice was ‘Milk Chocolate Brownie’, ‘Almond Cookie’, ‘Chocolate Caramel Shortbread’, ‘Snowy Hills’, and ‘Almond Moon’. I bet your mouth is watering now…….. Of course I had to try one !!!!! and the ‘milk chocolate brownie’, was deeeelicious and very moorish. My son went to work this morning with the ‘almond moon’, which he said was very, very nice. All the cakes can be frozen for up to a year which is ideal if you…
If your baking trays and tins have lost their non-stickiness then try the ‘Tefal Airbake’ range, www.tefal.co.uk Air is trapped between the two layers of aluminium and stops the top sheet from overheating and burning food.