Tag Archives: Baking

Christmas in Hackney

December 12, 2009 – 10:58 pm

While David and Ben have been living it up in America, I’ve been slaving away in chilly London preparing for a traditional home-made Christmas. We’ve got gingerbread tree decorations and hand painted wrapping paper but my success for the festive season has to be the Christmas cake to end all Christmas cakes! Now, I’ve never […]

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Profiteroles with chocolate sauce

May 16, 2009 – 11:52 pm

So I finally got round to making the profiteroles filled with patisserie cream as promised. It was a mistake to start baking these late on a Monday evening when my housemates had just returned from a festival and were too hung-over/exhausted to enjoy them. It is not possible for one person to eat 40 profiteroles, […]

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Tea Scones

February 25, 2008 – 12:50 am

A family recipe. Well, a recipe I got from my family. For all I know it came from a Delia Smith book. As yet untested, but very nice when other people have made them. Now that summer is approaching and afternoon tea is more appealing this recipe is due a test run. Ingredients 225g self […]

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