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The online website http://www.afternoontea.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=868&Itemid=16?source=newsletter – have negotiated a massive 25% discount off Afternoon Tea at a range of fabulous venues across the UK. Just go to the link for more details – maybe start the diet the second week in January 🙂
As you know I have previously written about the worlds original marmalade awards on February 25th and 26th, I promised plantpot that I would find a good recipe. If you go to the Jam Jar Shop website www.jamjarshop.com they have details on how to enter the competition if you have your own favourite recipe. But, for first timers they also have a ‘guide to making marmalade’. They also have The Marmalade Makers ‘Bargain Box’, which for £14 consists of a special pack of 36 x 7oz round jars, complete with gold lids, smart orange design labels and a muslin square,…
www.cakeeaters.co.uk/blog or facebook www.facebookc.om/cakeclubsnottingham I’ve only just found out that there is a local cake club in Nottinghamshire. A love of cakes brought together four friends from Nottingham. Sarah, Wana, Helen and Kate set up an event where you bring your own cake and then you sample other peoples. The first public event they had was last July 2011, since then the events have taken off big time ! ( Must have one of these).
Mixing rose petals with normal black tea creates a wonderful refreshing drink, hot or cold. Ingredients 4 cups of boiling water 1 cup of rose petals 1 tea bag Method Combine all ingredients in a tea pot and steep for 4 – 5 minutes Stain and serve
They say that Dorset holds the UK’s best kept food secret. It’s the home of Honeybuns, which is a hands on team who make the most delicious cakes, cookies, layered shortbreads, brownies and savouries. Emma Gross-Custard is the brainchild of Honeybuns which she started in 1998 when as a student, she delivered homemade tasty goodies to the foodies in Oxford from her push bike. Now Honeybuns has grown through word of mouth and recommendations. Each cake is still handmade and slow baked in the vintage oven and all but two of their cakes are gluten free, with four dairy free.…
It’s no good if we bake fantastic cakes if we have nothing to store them in so some of the top ones I have seen advertised are – Emma Bridgewater – www.emmabridgewater.co.uk – £30 for three John Lewis – www.johnlewis.com – £19.99 for two or £12 for one Garden Trading – www.gardentrading.co.uk £20 for one or £42 for three tiers Of course there are a lot more available, these were just some I found being advertised.
As I am sure you know there are two types of flour, strong (high-gluten) and weak (low-gluten). The strong is for break making and the weak is for cakes and biscuits. Deciding which flour to choose to bake with is another question often asked. Self raising or plan flour? Self-raising gives you a good balance of raising agents, but with plain flour you can control what you add. Generally they say 2 ½ tsp Baking Powder should be added to every 250g/8oz plain flour. They also say that sifting flour makes a ‘lighter’ cake. With such a choice of sugars…
The Annual Marmalade Awards and Festival which takes place once a year at Dalemain Mansion on the 25th and 26th February, 2012 in Cumbria. It is filled with the smell of marmalade as it toasts the winners of the Marmalade Awards, www.marmaladeawards.com The festival boasts appearances from Paddington Bear, marmalade making demonstrations, hands on workshops and much more. The event is open to homemade and commercial marmalade makers, and the ever popular Amateur Awards has a host of categories to choose from ranging from ‘Man-made’ to ‘Novice’ and ‘Mystery’, – so why not have a go and enter your handmade…
Baking Mad is a website that has everything you want to know about baking. It has recipes, ideas, tips and a club with discounts and competitions and offers. http://www.bakingmad.com It has pictures and videos to follow your cake recipe and even has a convertion guide so you can use those old recipes, with ingredients in ounces. It’s well worth a visit before you make your next cake.
Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities – will always be the favourite beverage of the intellectual. Thomas De Quincy (1785 – 1859) English critic and essayist
Make sure the oven is hot. Put the fruitcake dish in a baking dish half-filled with water to prevent burning around the edges. To prevent burnt, hard-crusted fruitcakes, cover pans with aluminum foil for the last 1/2 hour of baking. If at any point the cake is browning too fast, place a sheet of foil over it to give it some ‘shade’. Pop your skewer into the centre of the cake to test for doneness, don’t just guess by the colour.If it comes out clean, crumb-less and carefree, the cake is done! Be careful not to over-bake! Always cool fruitcakes…
Ingredients 1 Chocolate covered Swiss roll 2 x Meringue nests (crushed) 2 x packets of Chocolate delight 1 Medium carton of whipping cream 4 x tablespoons of Baileys Cream 1 x tablespoon chocolate chips or cadbury’s flake 1 x pint of skimmed milk (for chocolate whip) Method Cut your chocolate Swiss roll into thick pieces and line the bottom of your trifle bowl. Pour 2 tablespoons of Baileys on your first layer then do another layer and repeat Whip up your chocolate delight with milk Leave to stand for 10 minutes Whip up the cream Sprinkle crushed meringue over the…
This Scottish Quick Bread is said to have taken its name from the Stone of Destiny (or Scone) the place where Scottish kings were once crowned. It is especially popular in the UK, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Belgium and Ireland. The original triangular shaped scone was made with oats and griddle-baked. Today’s scones are more flour-based and baked in the oven and made of wheat, barley or oatmeal with baking powder. They can include raisins, currants, or cheese. In 2005 it was estimated that the UK scone market was worth £64m, showing a 9% increase over the previous five…
Lavinias just loves baking, dressing up in vintage clothing and collecting pretty vintage china sets, so it only seemed natural for her to turn these hobbies into a business, ‘Lavinias Tea Party’. She makes bunting from fabric scraps, tiered cake stands from china that isn’t part of a set, and earrings and brooches from any cracked pieces of china. She also has a regular vintage tea party evening in Cirencester, at ‘Somewhere Else’, in Castle Street. She has local friends, vintage enthusiasts and performers, and she plans to give Cirencester a taste of the 1940’s and 50’s. www.laviniasteaparty.com