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How To Make Ginger Cordial

November 13, 2011 By Laura Scott 21 Comments

Ginger is an ingredient I often turn to when I am feeling under the weather. It warms me up when I am feeling cold and it clears and soothes my throat when the winter viruses come a calling. It is also an ingredient that can liven up a soft drink and there is often nothing… read more »

Filed Under: Bottle & Jar Goods Tagged With: cream of tartar, ginger, golden caster sugar, Home made gift, Lets Make Christmas, unwaxed lemon, Vanessa Kimbell, water

Christmas Pudding Truffles

November 6, 2011 By Laura Scott 16 Comments

It’s that time of year again when my younger daughter’s school asks the children to show a talent or a skill to their teacher and classmates. This happens about once a term. Having gone through three years of it with my older daughter, you do get to a point when there is simply no skill… read more »

Filed Under: Tea time treats Tagged With: butter, Chrstmas, currants, dark chocolate, dried cranerries, egg white powder, Home made gift, icing sugar, Madeira cake, pecan nuts, Pudding, ready to use coloured fondant icing, Thrifty Christmas, Truffles, vanilla extract, Violet Posy, water

Give us this day, our daily bread

August 4, 2011 By Laura Scott 4 Comments

I have recently been getting into baking bread. It all started when I found that the children were getting a bit too used to eating that sliced 50/50 bread and any bread that looked too brown in colour began to get rejected. I thought I had better see if I could remedy this problem by… read more »

Filed Under: Breakfast dishes, Tea time treats Tagged With: fast action dried yeast, olive oil, rye flour, salt, Strong white bread flour, sugar., water

Chocolate, cherry & kirsch mousse with toasted almonds

July 30, 2011 By Laura Scott 2 Comments

This recipe is my first entry into Maison Cupcake’s ”Forever Nigella” monthly recipe competition http://blog.maisoncupcake.com/forever-nigella/. The idea is that you pick a Nigella recipe, which have different monthly themes, and adapt it slightly to suit your tastes, then enter it into a monthly recipe challenge. This month the Forever Nigella challenge is titled ” Iced dreams “.… read more »