Having used frozen berries for my muffins I decided to use fresh berries for some free form pies. I wanted individual ones with a nice shortcrust pastry. Of course it would be ok to use shop bought pastry but I like to make my own, using a mixture of butter and lard as the shortening […]
As the warmer weather is now with us my thoughts turned to summer and I decided to make some muffins with a variety of summer fruits. So for my Summer Berry Muffins I used frozen fruits, though fresh would be ideal as well. The mixture that I used had raspberries, blackberries, blackcurrant and redcurrants. I […]
After the success of my Raspberry and Lemon Cheesecake I decided to try a blackberry version. This time though I would use frozen rather than fresh berries. In the UK frozen berries are much cheaper than the fresh ones and work very well in making sauces etc. In fact mine turned out very well. […]