This is fusion food. I’ve taken a favourite Japanese flavour, a traditional English-style pudding and a modern method to produce this lovely, easy dessert ....
WHOLESOME LOAF
QUARK FOR DESSERT ANYONE?
SLICE IS NICE
WORTH THE WORK
Husband’s birthday. Cake needed. But what to make? Something new. He’s had all our recipes of course. Birthday getting closer ..... Chatting with a friend just back from Europe who, on a train to Brussels, consumed several pieces of what she described as the most delicious cake she’d ever had - a Medovik, a Czechosolvakian Honey Cake. Bingo! ....
DELICIOUS LEMON
We’ve posted a few citrus-based recipes recently but given that lemons, oranges and grapefruits are in season right now we know you’ll allow us to post one more. After all, it is winter in the southern hemisphere and vitamin C is supposed to be good to ward off colds and the flu.
So here is a classic lemon delicious pudding with a touch of lime ....
PERFECT PASTRY
CHOCOLATE MACAROON BARS
JENNY'S FROZEN LEMON MERINGUE CAKE
My beautiful grandmother, Dot, had a lovely tradition of always noting the name of the person who passed a recipe on to her. I still have her old hand written recipe book with its solid wooden cover. It is full of recipes with lovely names like Chocolate Cake Rene and Aunty Nellie Lambert’s Rock Cakes, Muriel’s Caramel Marlow and Elsie T’s Coffee Crystal Biscuits as well as many of Dot’s own recipes ....
THE SWEET ANZAC TRADITION
Anzac Biscuits started out in life as a staple in soldiers’ rations – a very (very) hard, nutritious but unpalatable alternative to bread. In Gallipoli, they became known as Anzac Tiles, and creative ways were found to get them down. They were grated and turned into porridge, or soaked in water with jam, and baked over a fire to make ‘jam tarts.’ (Sounds like seriously wishful thinking.) ....
HOT CROSSED .....
Finding an excellent gluten-free Hot Crossed Bun can be almost as daunting as the thought of producing a batch at home so this Easter we’re baking Hot Crossed Muffins instead. They make a very easy alternative with all the spicy flavour and dried fruit plumpness of a traditional Hot Crossed Bun, without all the fuss ....