Things remain a little flat here and there is little of interest going on in my kitchen. I have been concentrating on catching up with the girls in the back garden — and today I finally cleared the last egg tray! I did cheat a little and two dozen went into the freezer, in six-egg batches. We …
Tag archives: Cakes and Pastries
Rich Fruit Cake continued
The cake has cooled and been turned out of its tin. I inverted it and gave it a good stabbing before adding a couple of tablespoons of dark rum. I clearly failed to slam the tin hard enough, as it has a dint in the bottom where there must have been an air pocket remaining. …
Rich Fruit Cake
This pathetic looking thing is my recipe notebook that I started when I was at school, taking my A-level in Home Economics: and this is the page with my favourite Christmas Cake recipe on it: Now, I am certain that you are very proud of the rich fruit cakes that oyu make yourself but I …
Erratic
We don’t seem to be eating much bread at the moment, so there has been little need to bake any. Today was different – we had some roast pork in the fridge and ‘is nibs requested a milk roll to make pork sandwiches for tea. I think I’d have to say that this was the …
Oh, my
I’m baking cake today (the yeast is all gone). I am tackling the somewhat extravagant Poppy Seed Torte from the Guardian’s 10 best Seed Recipes. The thing is, I am not feeling too god and am really not on top of things today, and have ended up making the cake all wrong. It was the …
Bitza and Buns
I need a new oven. Rolls and bread made from the same batch of dough – behaved entirely differently on top and bottom shelf. The buns “peaked”. There is something very wrong with that oven. Has it anything to do with the kitchen knife that was jammed in the fan blades, I wonder. Whatever – …