Split Pea Soup

Can I recommend this recipe for Split Pea Soup? It's the first time I have had split peas soup and this was simply delicious.

Sage & Cheese Clover Rolls

This  recipe is ancient. I found it in a hand-written recipe notebook that dates back to 1968. This recipe is probably from about 1970. It's pre-metrication anyway. I am giving it as written, with notes on what I did today. Sage & Cheese Clover Rolls Ingredients ½ oz dried yeast 1 dsp Brown Sugar ¾ …

It’s still one of those days

You know, the laundry goes a lot faster if you actually press the START button. Today continues upside down. I wish that I could go back to bed and then start again. A couple of treats were put off at the weekend and I got around to them this morning. The Lakeland Parcel: full of …

Just one of those days

I am having one of those days. You know the ones - when you get up and shower and can't even remember which order you wash your bits in and then nothing goes right all day. It is Spinning Group day but I have decided not to go. A trip to town tomorrow and so …

Ghost Bread – Beer, Orange and Fennel Rye Loaf

Looks interesting. We are a long way away from York Brewery though. OMG - I do fancy a pint of Terrier!

Updates: Cheese, and Shepherd’s Bread

Day 3: still using loaf #2 of the Shepherd's Bread for breakfast toast and it is still good. Lovely moist chewy inside, golden toasted outside, no sign of off-ness or reduced flavours. Cheese-making is cancelled due to lack of milk supplies at the shop this morning - they had only the Pure, micro-filtered stuff. Clearly …