Posted in - Bake & gluten free & Tea Time on May 12th 2020
gluten free cookies glutenfree biscuits
Today I was asked for ‘those yummy chewy cookies’ and I really couldn’t remember … so that is where this blog comes into action. The reason I started this in the first place was because of being chaotic and forgetting recipes so for my own benefit I started this because I would not be able …
Posted in - Bake & gluten free & Puddings & Recipes & Tea Time on April 28th 2020
baked alaska compote gluten free pudding rhubarb
This is so similar to the Rhubarb pie that it is hardly worth posting, but the reason I am is that it is a pastry-less version which my daughter prefers. She is strictly gluten free so all of these are with her in mind, and me as I think I am where she gets it …
Posted in - Bake & Healthy Recipes & Peacetime & Tea Time on April 6th 2020
gluten free bread
I have been making this bread for about a year. Today I ran out of Sorghum flour and replaced it with Millet flour. The result is amazing! It is so light and so delicious. The ingredients make 2 loaves. I added cheese to the second loaf and it was eaten up in one sitting. If …
Posted in - Bake & gluten free & Puddings & Tea Time on November 9th 2019
gluten free; poppy seed cake; Jason Goodwin; Yashim Cooks Instanbul
This is an adaptation of Jason Goodwin’s poppyseed cake only insofar as this is gluten free and has lemon added. Very delicious and will last longer than your average cake because it is more or less saturated in sugar syrup.
Ingredients
For Syrup
300g granulated sugar
375ml water
juice of 2 lemons
Cake
200g granulated sugar
3 eggs
230ml …
Posted in - Bake & gluten free & Tea Time on October 14th 2019
chocolate and hazelnut cookies gluten free cookies; gluten free white chocolate and cranberry
You can add whatever you like to these. Just add 100g of whatever it is. The first batch had cranberries and white chocolate chips, the second choc chips and the third, choc chips and roasted hazelnuts. A batch will make 14 large cookies, or 20 smaller ones.
These are not healthy but they are gluten …
Posted in - Breakfast & gluten free & Puddings & Sweeties & Tea Time on October 3rd 2019
strawberry jam
I bought some strawberries which really had to be eaten last night but in my absence at a book talk in Bath by Fergus Henderson and Trevor Gulliver of St John London, they were not. So by this morning they had to be eaten straight away or be made into something. So this is …
Posted in - Bake & Tea Time on September 7th 2016
iced fruit bread Iced tea bread tea time treat
My childhood friend, Charlie, was staying; actually is staying as I write this, but when it is published in a couple of days he will sadly have gone. In Newcastle where we lived near each other and before he found his lovely wife, I baked now and then and he shared the result, or his …
Posted in - Bake & Breakfast & Puddings & Tea Time on September 4th 2016
baked bread Canadian bakes cinnamon bread courgette bread zucchini cinnamon bread
We were given this delicious cake/bread in church in Canada 6 hours north of Montreal, off the St Lawrence River, where only during the summer its doors are opened with a visiting vicar. Someone brings in something delicious each week and this is one of them. Whether a churchgoer or not, yummies and ‘cook outs’ …
Posted in - Bake & Tea Time on October 24th 2015
Afternoon tea biscuits Edwardian tea Shrewsbury Biscuits
‘Measure not my love by substance of it, which is brittle, but by the form of it which is circular.’
Lord Herbert of Cherbury, 1602
Renowned as biscuits eaten by country people, Shrewsbury biscuits were made with varying additions such as cinnamon, nutmeg and rosewater. The essence is in the flour:butter ratio, ensuring their crispness. If the …
Posted in - Bake & Tea Time on June 11th 2015
crumpets drop scones Edwardian tea pikelets tea time treat
Within 4 minutes all of these had been gobbled up by 4 children straight back from school. Yum Yum.
Rather like a crumpet, but very speedily made without a mould, these are light and delicious. In Edwardian times, they would be kept warm and served under a dome, whether at the top of a tiered curate …