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Recipe – Sweet Cheese Tarts
Now we all know how to make pastry (or buy it) so I will just tell you what you need: 6 oz short crust pastry for this recipe, sweet or not depending on your taste. Filling: 8 oz Cottage or Curd Cheese – whichever you can buy 2 oz Sugar 2oz Currants… Continue reading
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Recipe – Vanilla Slice
Vanilla slices or custard slices are very popular here and on the Continent. You can make them from scratch or use ready made pastry, but either way they are good! You will need: 8 oz of puff pastry made with 8 oz plain flour, a pinch of salt,… Continue reading
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January is National Hot Tea Month
Back in June, I previously spoke of National Iced Tea Month where iced tea is celebrated and appreciated for the whole month. It’s January now and the weather has gotten cold, and coincidentally, it’s National Hot Tea Month! It’s never been a better time to enjoy hot tea. Many are making New Year’s resolutions, where… Continue reading
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Recipe – Battenburg Cake
This is the most fiddly cake I have ever made but the taste makes up for it! Finding red food coloring was not easy either, my first attempt at this cake turned out green and yellow instead of pink and yellow. When I have made this in the past with my Mum we used cochineal… Continue reading
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Recipe – Italian Meringue Icing
If you do not want to use cream cheese style icing for your red velvet cake then you can use this Italian Meringue Icing which is a very light buttery type of icing that taste delicious with red velvet cake. It is a little bit more work, but worth it! You… Continue reading
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Christmas Traditions
The final Christmas blog of the year will reflect on Christmas traditions, comparing them side to side with Britain and the United States. You may have heard of writing letters to Santa and popping them in the mail here in the US, and the United Kingdom does it as well, only they burn their letters… Continue reading
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Recipe – Red Velvet Cake
Red Velvet cake is basically a chocolate cake with red coloring so you can use a Betty Crocker cake mix or use the chocolate cake we made earlier in the year and add some red coloring. You can also use a tub of Betty Crocker Cream Cheese style icing or you can make an icing… Continue reading
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Christmas Stocking Stuffers!
It’s almost Christmas! The mad dash to get last minute preparations, gifts, and stocking stuffers for loved ones will only get even madder! Many of us still have to get a Christmas tree, wrap gifts, and buy some stocking stuffers! In my family, gifts are mostly for the children but if there is enough in… Continue reading
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Christmas Dinner
When you have a holiday dinner, what is traditional at your table? For my family, it’s pretty similar to the food at Thanksgiving, except we have a ham and sometimes a turkey (with some delicious stuffing) since I have a sister who refuses to eat ham (thank the teacher in high school who scared her… Continue reading
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Recipe – Christmas Cake
Now I realize a lot of you will not be making your own Christmas cake, it seems to be a British tradition at Christmas, some people do and some do not, I think every household in the UK who make their own cake will have their own recipe for Christmas cake. I always make my… Continue reading
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