Look what I found – What Liberty Ate – this magazine, something of this quality is free? Unfortunately, wp.com will not, so far as I can see, allow me to embed the magazine. I’ll just have to tell you that it is 138 pages, with lots of recipes and some gorgeous images. This is issue …
Monthly archives: January 2013
Whoops
Yesterday’s doughnuts were (technically speaking) a fail. A Big Fat Fail. Worth pursuing, though, as the flavour combination was sensational.
Slumped
It is a filthy, filthy day, following a filthy, filthy night – the barometer bottomed out at ten past six this morning and the storm has eased, but will remain with us all day. There will be no outside activity today, with winds continuing to gust up into the sixties. For once, the power stayed …
Speed Baking
Quiet, isn’t it? It is not so much that there is no baking happening around here, rather a lack of time to document or photograph it, and the poor light is no incentive to get a camera out either. Here’s a short update. Last night: a cake for today’s Spinning Group – based on Nigella’s …
We all love figgy pudding
The recipe that I linked to the other day, for Vanilla-Rooibos Fig Newtons set me off a-Googling. It contained mystery ingredients, plus I had always wondered what a Fig Newton was. Turns out it’s just a plain old Fig Roll. Mystery #2 was the Chia seeds. These come from a Salvia, believe it or not …
Blackberry Scones
The richest scone mix I have ever seen in my life! Massive quantities of sugar and butter and then bound with evaporated milk, of all things. I am re-blogging this because I think it will intrigue one of my readers especially. I think the blackberries will get his cook’s noggin’ workin’. Also of interest because …