Recipes

Back in the distant past in Britain, there was the Yorkshire Television company, who had a show called Farmhouse Kitchen. I went to university with two volumes of recipes from that show in books that were copyrighted in 1975. This is an adaptation of one of those recipes to be

I've been tweaking a recipe for sourdough scones, and it feels sufficiently different from the original to put it here. I found this recipe on Sourdough Surprises, who credits Sourdough Diva (no longer online) Before you can make these, you need to get enough sourdough starter to play with. You

I've been tweaking my scone recipe to improve structural integrity, after at least three test batches and direction from Angie Ruiz, this is the new and improved recipe. Better English Scones Makes about 13 scones and one runty little test scone Ingredients: * 1 pound of flour (I used half wheat

Can also be called "pudding" if "glop" sounds unappetising. This recipe uses the US tablespoon, which is a 15ml liquid measure. I put everything in a Blender Bottle to get everything mixed up, it works well. Also I don't have an electric blender. If you don't like the texture of

Why yes, I am pathologically incapable of following a recipe as given. I assembled this from several recipes online and tweaked it to work with US measures. I made two batches, my other substitutions are below. This is a good recipe for using up small amounts of dried fruit and

I've made one batch of these from my mother's recipe, I made a few mistakes but they were still delicious. //embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js Ingredients for the bun * 8oz flour (I used whole wheat flour) * 2 teaspoons of baking powder * 3oz unsalted butter * 1 egg, beaten * 1/2

I've been testing out muffin recipes, especially Paleo and gluten-free ones. These are the successes, I've only had one really bad fail. The biggest lesson I've learned is that manually grating a carrot is a lot of work. Paleo Morning Glory muffins I used buckwheat honey, and added a half

This seems to be a pie unknown to Americans, and it's really easy to make.  The only hassle is that it takes time to do it right.  You need a five hour stretch to get really good caramel. Ingredients * 2 cans of sweetened condensed milk * 1 graham cracker pie crust

I remember my mother making this when I was a child.  It is so sweet! * 350g (¾ pound) of sugar, preferably fine baker's sugar * 150ml (¼ pint) milk * 125g (4oz) coconut * 1 or 2 drops of vanilla essence Put the sugar and milk in a saucepan on a low heat and stir