Cook: Honey Brandy Butter – or Florence White’s “American Sauce”
We can’t have a pudding receipt without Brandy Butter to accompany it. No refined sugar please. Every recipe out there seems to have more icing sugar added than it contains butter! It’s just not necessary and such sweetness leaves an…
Cook: Pudding in a Hurry? Sir Charles Rowley’s 1857 Plum Pudding gets the Gluten Free treatment
My grandma’s Plum Pudding was always the highlight of our Christmas. When I was just a girl who didn’t even like Christmas Pudding, seeing the Christmas pudding bowl come out, accompanied by its Brandy Butter, epitomised the yuletide spirit and…
Cook and Travel: Sea Vegetables & Welsh Laverbread
It may seem odd to the British Readers, that I first heard about Laverbread only in February this year. We had travelled to this charming, unpretentious gastropub near Abergavenny for a weekend in Wales – it’s where my son wanted…
Travel: A Ripon Ghost Yarn – in search of lost souls
Here fond climates and sweet singers – but traditional delights? Crimson leaves blowing across cobbled lanes led us north to Yorkshire for October – the only time to find Parkins. After an evening’s…
Cook: Dishy Parkins for November the Fifth
Making an allergy-free version of these delicious Ripon Parkins was a treat in itself.When I was a child in Australia in the 1970s, we would go to the park behind my grandma and grandpa’s house for Bonfire Night. I…
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