Food and Cookery books 2020

Cookbook wish list

Tried and tested – coo books that I heartily recommend I love a good book, preferably a cookery book or one about food. Recently, I’ve been more ruthless getting rid …

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Bake my Stollen Recipe

Stollen

When did you first taste Stollen? I’m not at all sure when I first tasted Stollen. My first memory is of a fruity bread with marzipan in the middle. Always …

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A Victorian Christmas: Furmenty and Snapdragon

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We have the Victorians to thank for many of our Christmas traditions but thank goodness some of them are not followed today.

For a recent Victorian themed Christmas party, each guest was asked to dress up and do a “turn”. Dressing up was no problem, we had fun discovering all the costumes a local dramatic group had to offer. But a “turn”? I was nervous about this bit. I wasn’t up to reciting a poem or god forbid singing, so something foodie would have to do.

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