I recently had a couple of requests for ginger cake. I have made one before, on this blog but that was before I was also doing videos. So I decided I would make it again, but with a little variation. I should say that most of the recipes I have seen use only about half […]
Eccles Cakes are named after a town in Lancashire, England. They are made with a flaky pastry, though some people use puff pastry, and have a spicy currant and chopped peel filling. I really like Eccles Cakes, and especially the lovely flaky pastry. I make mine with all butter, using a recipe from BBC Good […]
I saw a lovely sounding recipe on Joy of Baking for molasses cookies. So I thought I would try it out, but using Black Treacle instead of molasses. The reason for that is that I had black treacle, and it is very similar indeed to molasses, being made from raw cane sugar. Indeed in it much […]
I am back from a wonderful trip to Canada to visit family. Whilst there I did some baking with my great nieces Grace and Claire. I took my camera with me so was able to film the process. We had a lot of fun making Chocolate Crinkle Cookies and Grantham Gingerbreads. Both recipes are already […]
Watching a tv program, Great British Railway Journeys I saw Michael Portillo being introduced to a biscuit which he, and almost everyone else, had never known about. That was Grantham Gingerbread. I hadn’t heard of it either, so did some investigation. It seems that it was first produced in 1740 and was eaten locally in […]
Ginger Nuts are a British favourite, a lovely gingery hard and crunchy biscuit. Ideal for dunking in a cup of tea. I decided to make some after I discovered that I didn’t have any on this blog. I know I have made them before, but that was probably before I started the blog. Anyway they […]
What can be nicer than a moist and chocolatey brownie? Well I think taking that and adding some ginger might just be. Having decided that I wanted to try it I came up with the recipe, culled from various brownie recipes, and with some ginger and nutmeg added. Keeping things nice and simple it is […]
What an enticing prospect a Rhubarb cake is. I found a recipe on a card from Waitrose, for a Rhubard and Soured Cream Cake, with a ginger syrup. The photo on the card looked very nice and reading the recipe made me want to try it. My sister had frozen some rhubarb, from her garden, […]