Category: Recipes
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Gild the Gingerbread
It’s been a frustrating few days the weather has been grim, grey and gloomy and my current knitting project isn’t working out. Knitted Christmas present production has slowed up. An afternoon of baking seemed a quicker way of making a few gifts and with a little judicious planning there would be a few left to
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A Slice of Paradise
Here’s another of our wool show cake tin standbys, this one definitely has a retro feel.I’m not entirely sure where this recipe came from it may have been from a copy of Woman’s Realm or Woman’s Weekly, well thumbed copies of which were passed around the neighbours, when we were kids. It’s a version of
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Saucepan Cake
At shows we can often be found munching on a piece of cake and we never knowingly travel with out a least one cake in the tin. The perfect show cake is a substantial and sturdy thing, without icing or sticky fillings. It should be able to withstand being bounced about and not crumble into
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Passion Cake Procrastination
It’s Yarndale next week and preparations are under way but perhaps not as under way as they should be.
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Easter Biscuits
When we were kids, Easter was a hot cross bun on Good Friday and a Quality Street chocolate egg each which was always hidden at the back of Mum’s wardrobe, so the egg hunt was remarkably quick. We never had Simnel cake and I didn’t have an Easter biscuit until I’d left home, started my
