Foods and Candies
Foods and candies for tea time (both British and other), recipes (with or without tea) original to author.
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Recipe – Cherry Bakewell Tarts
Bakewell tart is good but Cherry Bakewell is so much better! (If you like glace cherries!) A Bakewell tart is a sweet pastry case with jam on the base then covered with a cake mixture, usually made with ground almonds and / or ground rice and then baked in the oven. With this recipe glace Continue reading
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Recipe – Shortbread Kisses
Coffee Kisses, melting moments or chocolate shortbread kisses. Whatever you you want to call them they are delicious. I have made plain ones with chocolate on top and I made them rather large so they would photograph better. You will need: 6 oz Self Raising Flour 3 oz Caster Sugar 3 oz butter Continue reading
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Recipe – Madeira Cake
A Madeira cake is what we call a rich cake even though it does not have any fruit in it. It is a plain cake with a close texture and is delicious sliced and spread with a little butter. You will need: 5 oz butter 5 oz caster sugar 3 eggs, Continue reading
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Recipe – Lemon Bursts
The dentist and her manager love anything sweet and they are always on the look out for recipes for me to try, so they can try them too! Lemon is one of their favourite flavours and these cookies are really nice and lemony. Set your oven to 170 C 330 F gas mark Continue reading
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Recipe – Steak Pie
Well the end of Summer is close here in the UK and what better time than this to make a heart warming Steak pie for dinner? You will need some nice steak for this pie, I used a stewing steak that was on special offer at the local butcher. I usually use braising steak which Continue reading
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Autumn is Here & We Love Chai Tea!
Chai…now doesn’t that sound like a good ring to your ears? You should know that it brings a good ring to your mouth. In several parts of the world, it’s what they call tea! But for many of us, we think of it as a spiced drink. Chai is usually made with black teas (Assam Continue reading
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Recipe – Strawberry Pavlova
This dessert is relatively easy to make but does take some time to cook. You will need the oven very low, I did some cake baking and then put the oven down to 100 degrees C. The Pavlova was first made in New Zealand for the Russian ballet dancer Anna Pavlova who, I am told, Continue reading
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Recipe – Chocolate + Pecan Brownies
Last year when I started writing this blog someone asked me for a foolproof brownie recipe but I did not have one because brownies were not that popular in our house. There are a lot of boxes out there for Brownies to add the odd ingredient to and bake yourself at home but recently I Continue reading
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Tea Cake & Tarts
Recently I discussed tea biscuits, but today I wanted to delve into another topic that is popular among Afternoon Tea: Cake! As much as biscuits are enjoyed during a nice cup of tea, sometimes a nice little cake or tart is fancied as something a little different. Battenburg/Battenberg Cake: However you spell it, it’s still Continue reading
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Recipe – Strawberries & Cream Cheesecake
We are coming to the end of the strawberry season now but you can use raspberries or in fact any fruit you want to top this delicious cheesecake. Plus it is a no bake cheesecake so you can make it even if the weather is hot! For the base you can either make one with Continue reading
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