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 …
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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 …
Vanilla-Rooibos Fig Newtons | My New Roots
Vanilla-Rooibos Fig Newtons | My New Roots. No yeast involved, but what looks to be a lovely baked treat. We both love Fig Rolls and we also enjoyed those Kellogg bars we used to pack up for walking trips… they are very reminiscent of fig rolls, but oaty and not at all fig-ish. No, I …
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It ain’t necessarily so
You know, if one were to attempt to make cheese and have it go rather badly, one could always make a kind of curd tart from the debris… …and if one did, one might choose to perfume the pie with some Aroma Panettone… …and if one did that, it might just well turn out to …
Forward Planning
I have been given a Rum Pot! Don’t recognise that? Try Rumtopf. It is very 1970s, I know – but I care not. I have wanted to have a go for what seems like forever. I shall start the pot off the next time that I go shopping, when I shall buy rum and a …