Posted in - Mrs C.S. Peel's Recipes & Rationing on February 11th 2014
Mrs C.S. Peel Plum pudding suet sultanas WW1
My Canadian mother rarely makes puddings. If she does, they most definitely do not involve suet. So Granny Dot has introduced this to me via savoury and sweet puddings; I love them. This is a winner, as is the savoury Bacon pudding. The most exciting thing about this is walking into the kitchen for about two …
Posted in - Puddings & Recipes on December 19th 2013
bread and butter pudding breakfast comfort eggnog sultanas
To eat pudding for breakfast may not have crossed your mind. The thing is, I LOVE pudding! The idea came from a hotel in Borneo back in 1993. It somehow re-emerged through the recesses of my brain since my return trip in 2013. It is spoiling but my latest theory is that to start the day in …
Posted in - Bake & Mrs C.S. Peel's Recipes & Puddings on May 21st 2013
1900s ground almonds lemon meringue sponge sultanas
This cake is another from my great great Granny. She calls it Ring cake and I don’t know why other than the tin perhaps. A rock cake, which was my previous post, is a rock cake, and not overly thrilling. This recipe however, is thrilling; I am excited about the icing and while I realise that such …
Posted in - Bake & Puddings & Recipes on April 27th 2013
Belgian Buns Bulla buns cakes icing raisins. cinnamon sultanas
My late father adored these. I even have a photograph on my dressing table of him eating one. The thought of adding it to my blog feels a little too much, so please just picture a happy face indulging in something which always made him smile!
I bought one for my children to share after …
Posted in - Bake & Mrs C.S. Peel's Recipes & Puddings on April 23rd 2013
cake mixed spice sultanas tea
This is one of my great great grandmother’s recipes, re-invented. I have kept the same ingredients and changed the quanties, adding demerara sugar for a wonderful finish.
I made it for tea with a lovely lady, Barbara Marriott, the grandmother of a friend, whilst asking her for words of wisdom in the research I am doing for a book …
Posted in - Bake on November 7th 2012
breakfast bullar buns cinnamon cinnamon rolls coffee indulge raisins sultanas Swedishbullar Sweets tea treat
I have been to Sweden a couple of times to visit my husband’s family, but I have not actually had a bullar, or I am told I have but was pregnant at the time and I really can’t remember so I am guessing that it was not as memorable experience as I hope eating these …