Category Archives: Ingredients

Make your own golden syrup

My sister lives in France and her list of requests when someone visits goes like this… self-raising flour, teabags (of course), stock cubes, porridge oats, Dorset muesli, golden syrup. But now I’ve discovered from The Woks of Life that you … Continue reading

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A Courgette Glut

The courgette plants in my sister’s garden are out of control. No one can agree on whether or not a marrow is an overgrown courgette but that technicality aside we need to eat up some of the monsters. Here are … Continue reading

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Genuinely fast recipes which are very good

I find those “30-minutes recipes” which turn out to take nearer an hour very annoying. But occasionally I come across something that is incredibly quick to make but tastes as if it should take a long time. SMOKED MACKERAL PATE Ingredients: 2 … Continue reading

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Salted or Unsalted? (And other thoughts on butter).

A reader wrote about this scone recipe, “I have compared your recipe with the Ballymaloe recipe and you miss out the pinch of salt.” That’s true and if you are using unsalted butter you should probably add the pinch of salt. I … Continue reading

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