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EASY SPICED APPLE PUDDING…

Ingredients 3oz/85g remove skin and coarsely chop the apples 3oz/85g caster sugar 3oz/85g currants 4oz/ breadcrumbs 3 Medium eggs Finely grated rind of half a lemon half a teaspoon of cinnamon 1 Tablesp Brandy Method […]

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GOOD FOOD SHOW…

The BBC Good Food Show at the NEC in Birmingham is on 15-19th June, which is only a month away so it’s time to get your tickets now. This is one food show that I […]

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A BOOK ABOUT TEA…

‘Time for Tea’ with Mary Engelbreit is a lovely colourful book with lots of beautiful colour illustrations. She writes, ‘there is no companion so companionable as Solitude (Thoreau)’ which is how she thinks tea is […]

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CAMBRIC TEA…

They say this is the kind of tea served in English nurseries for centuries. It was simply a very milky tea with sugar to taste. The name comes from the French ‘ the de Cambrai’, […]

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TAKE SOME MORE TEA…

Take some more tea the March Hare said to Alice very earnestly ‘I’ve had nothing yet’, Alice replied in an offended tone’ ‘so I can’t take more’. Lewis Caroll – Alice in Wonderland

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TIME FOR TEA…

Drinking three cups of tea a day can help ward off heart disease and stroke according to an Australian study which found that drinking either ordinary tea or green tea can reduce the risk of […]

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TWINNINGS TEA STORY…

Their story started in 1706. Back then, the most popular drinks in England were coffee, gin and ale – even at breakfast! Although tea had been drunk in China for thousands of years, it had […]