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Category Archives: Cakes
A Christmas Cake, 1861
For this one I only have the images, no text. The four images begin with the ingredients laid out though to be fair, the method would be that of any other rich fruit cake recipe. Regard it as a sort … Continue reading
Cake Making Secrets – The Balance
Good Cake Making If the first rule of successful cake making is to find a good recipe and follow it to the letter then the second must be that, if reducing or increasing the basic quantities, to maintain the correct … Continue reading
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The Raisins The Sun-Maid
Where would this blog be without a massive infusion of dried fruits? From sun-soaked South Africa to the mediteranean climes of California dried fruits have been sent out to the entire world. Without them where would be the the Plum … Continue reading
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Hallowe’en Cakes
Some pretty little fancies for All Hallows Eve for the edification of the residents of the elderly mothers nursing home. The brief was soft, colourful and just a tad ghoulish but mostly fun! The cakes are from a small book … Continue reading
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Spring is in the Air!
With January and February behind us and March creeping on (I could have said marching on but I’m not that pedantic or crass) and the 26th March, as well as being Mothering Sunday, is the day the clocks leap into … Continue reading
Honey, Spice & All Things Nice
Honey and Ginger have long been considered staples of the ‘cold weather’ tea-table. Although the cost of spices in general has dropped considerably during the last century, they are still seen as a luxury, even today. As such they are … Continue reading
The Dessert Fort
Continuing what seems to be becoming a rather obsessive blogging of chocolate related items I thought that this might be of some interest. As the antique advert to the right here suggests, Cadbury’s chocolate is, or rather was, a British … Continue reading
Variations On A (Chocolate) Sponge!
The sponge cake, once the mainstay of the British kitchen, has diminished somewhat in the last few years what with the decline in schools ‘Home Economics’ style schooling where the basics were drummed into many an unwilling pupil. Although celebration … Continue reading
Never Enough Chocolate!
The history of chocolate has already been outlined on this blog through an old leaflet published by Cadbury’s in the fifties. Here is another version, also by Cadbury’s, from a mid-seventies chocolate book that I have already dipped into. I … Continue reading
Cooking With Chocolate
There are a number of interesting books in the archive on cooking with chocolate and the article here comes from the Cadbury’s Chocolate Cookbook published in the mid Seventies. At the time, the author Patricia Dunbar was head of Cadbury … Continue reading
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