Ingredients: 500g plain flour 1/2 teaspoons salt 2 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda 4.5 teaspoons cream of tartar 50g butter 25g suet 300ml milk Method: Put all the dry ingredients plus the butter and suet into a food processor and blitz until it becomes breadcrumbs. Add milk in one go and blitz again, but don’t work [...]
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Easy Peasy Fish Pie
Having got stuck in a bit of rut for family meals lately, I recently happened across a simple sauce that I decided would be perfect to use in a fish pie. This one has proven a hit with both the adults and the children, and is prepared in advance, ready for baking when everyone gets [...]
Summer Fruit Pavlova
With all the delicious berries and summer fruits on offer at the moment, and three lone eggs getting older and older in my egg chicken, a Summer Fruit Pavlova seemed the perfect way to bring a little sunshine to an otherwise disappointing summer. Ingredients: 3 egg whites 6oz caster sugar (170g) 500ml double/whipping cream Raspberries, [...]
Liberated Rhubarb, Strawberry and Almond Crumble
We love rhubarb season but it can be expensive to buy so any rhubarb that can be begged, borrowed or stolen is done so at any given opportunity. Luckily, a friend was housesitting for her mum and happened across her rhubarb plant, which really and truly looked like it needed a bit of a prune… [...]
