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Apple dumplings
"The crust, unhindered by a heavy filling, expands and flakes like puff pastry. When you cut into each, a trickle of buttery brown sugar...
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Aug 11
Who was Betty and was she brown?
Or was she a blondie? Or even a teapot? Sometimes I worry that my brain is not connecting all its bits and pieces properly and today's...
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Apr 5
Hidden potatoes and apples
"Name a dish that isn’t improved, or unaffected, by the addition of a small potato?" Rachel Roddy It's Guardian Feast newsletter day and...
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Mar 30
Cake for the lumberjacks or a queen?
"baking (and eating) cake can help whatever ails you" David Lebovitz On Monday we are having the Great Easter Egg Hunt - yes still. I...
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Oct 16, 2023
Normandy apples and cream
"The best thing I know between France and England is the sea." Douglas William Jerrold Last week was a guru week and it was Jane...
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Oct 13, 2023
Apples from Winton
"Passing time adds false memories and modifies real ones." Stephen King Eons ago I studied geography as one of my three A-level subjects....
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Sep 10, 2023
Classic - apple pie
"Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness." Jane Austen The first thing to say is that this is a first recipe...
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Apr 24, 2023
Specks
"Speck - a tiny patch or spot" Vocabulary.com Speck So these are not really specks - they are too big, but it is Speck with a capital S...
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Apr 22, 2023
A quote
"Danes are right to obsess about food because eating it is what freed Adam and Eve from Eden, allowing humans to think and make...
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Feb 22, 2023
Do not poke the jelly bag!
“The apple was the first fruit of the world according to Genesis, but it was no Cox’s Orange Pippin. God gave the crab apple and left the...
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Nov 26, 2022
Baked apples - so many ways
"All millionaires love a baked apple" Ronald Firbank This all started with a purchase of a big bag of i'Mperfect apples from Coles by...
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Aug 11, 2022
Winter jam
"More jam, less marmalade!" Dionne I'm in the middle of marmalade making season as you know, and I still have at least two more batches...
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Jun 27, 2022
Jane Grigson and the apple of paradise
“She thought food was the key to unlocking life,” Sophie Grigson This is one of my First Recipe posts - the book in question being Jane...
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Jul 28, 2021
Apple strudel
"all countries in which it is known take great pride in it, and several claim to have invented it." Oxford Companion to Food This is one...
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Jun 19, 2021
Why not apple jam rather than jelly?
As you can probably tell I have recently acquired the latest Coles Magazine and am gradually working my way through the things that...
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Jun 15, 2021
Zoom food for the soul
“Happiness [is] only real when shared” - Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild Yesterday was our postponed Zoom cooking class - and here we all...
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Jun 10, 2021
Robert and Betty's simple apples
"The Brown Betty is one of those homespun desserts you don’t often see anymore, the kind that travels under countless names and is...
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Apr 21, 2021
Old English apple pie
"the apple pie is one of the great dishes of this island, and one that has spread right round the world, recognisably British still,...
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