Posts Tagged with: tea

Spiced Sultana Demerara Cake

Posted in - Bake & Mrs C.S. Peel's Recipes & Puddings on April 23rd 2013 3 Comments 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 …

Swedish Bullar – Cinnamon Rolls

Posted in - Bake on November 7th 2012 1 Comments 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 …

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