Cook: Pineapple and Almond Fruit Cake; Gluten Free, from 1904
I love how Christmas Fruit Cakes look. Tall, dense, moist and richly coloured. I was strangely disappointed as a girl when a wedding cake turned out to be fruit cake underneath all its delicate, white frosting. Things have changed for…
Cook: 11.12.13 Plum Pudding Without Eggs from 1852; Gluten Free!
I wonder if Mrs Frome was making her Christmas pudding this late in the day! 11th December! This had better be my last Christmas Pudding for the year…unless I’m planning to save it for 25.12.14. That date doesn’t quite have…
Cook: Tropical Pudding for Christmas
Lord Barrington’s Plum Pudding. Gluten Free. Dairy-Free. No added Animal Fat. I’ve swapped the Suet for sweetly nourishing Coconut Oil, whose benefits include “antimicrobial properties; absorption directly for quick energy; and contribution to the health of the immune system.” according to my…
Cook: To Roast Goose in the English Fashion
The Roast Meat of Old England I was tempted to cook Moor Fowl, Jugged Pigeon, Ortolan or Roast Cygnet with you. But of course, and probably for the best, I’m not able to source any of these birds. The Cygnet…
Cook: Roast Duck with Gluten-Free Stuffing for a smaller Christmas setting
A duck serves fewer people than a chicken and certainly less than a turkey! Unlike a chook, it has the novelty value that a turkey does – making it a perfect festive option for a small family, a Christmas ‘en…
Cook: Delicious Home-made Bread ‘made with Yeast’. Gluten Free. Two Ways
Miss Veronica Cook provided this recipe in 1931. ‘Home-made and made with Yeast’ Florence White is full of wonderful tips for baking breads – both different yeasted breads and soda breads. She tells us that many of the old recipes…
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: Sourdough, Gluten Free. A far cry from Bath and Sally Lunn’s Buns
Sourdough. Bread. This is a book in itself. We went to Bath on the weekend. Sally Lunn’s is a Bath institution and her buns do not escape Florence White’s attention. They are eggy, creamy, and contain small beer yeast as…
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…
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