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Pâte Sablée and Crème Pâtissière with Autumn raspberries

Autumn raspberries put to good use. Admittedly this is a bit of a faff, but the component parts can be made in advance, and assembled last minute. I have Leiths to thank for the recipes, having had a moment of remembering the most delicate biscuit I have made. Definitely worth the trip.

Pâte Sablée
285g plain flour
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Raspberry Tart Française

Posted in - Puddings on October 14th 2016 0 Comments creme patissiere fruit tart raspberry tart tart francaise

I stupidly forgot to take a picture of this in its entirety so here we have a snapshot taken this morning by Mats, my son, who had it for his breakfast. Last night he begged and begged me to cut into the beautiful tart (I promise it was beautiful once!) and I bribed him with …

Eat meat from happily reared animals, and then you have their permission to really enjoy what you eat. Seconded by my great great grandmother, Dorothy Peel, in her books 100 years ago: ‘To judge by a letter which has appeared in the daily press and from private conversations it would seem that many people think that to abstain from meat on one of two days a week and to limit their total consumption to 2 ½ lb. per head per week is a restriction which may seriously affect their health. To be quite frank, it may affect their greed, but it certainly will not adversely affect their health; indeed, there seems good reason to think that less meat-eating would improve the health of the well-to-do.’ Mrs C.S. Peel, The Eat Less Meat Book, 1917