As everyone’s favourite baking show, the Great British Bake Off begins again, I thought I would share my own favourite cake recipe. You will need: 8oz wholemeal flour 8oz caster sugar 8oz butter (I used St Helen’s Farm Goat’s Butter) 4 eggs 1 Lemon For Filling Lemon curd 10 oz Icing sugar 5oz butter Lemon … [Read more…]
Then farmer and I met 14 years ago this year. From the minute I met him, I knew the phrase, ‘the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach’ would stand me in good stead with him. Farmers aren’t like other men. It must be something genetic in them, where they would much rather be … [Read more…]
As a farmer’s wife, I cook three meals a day for the family, farm workers and who ever else turns up. As any partner of a manual worker will tell you, beans on toast just won’t cut it. I also bake cakes as a little business on the side so an improvement in the taste … [Read more…]
At the beginning of March, I concocted a recipe to help celebrate Faitrade Fortnight. I entered it into a competition with Liberation Nuts to win a fabulous Fairtrade foodie hamper. The competition was only drawn by the amazing chef Allegra McEvedy, comedian Harry Hill and nutritionist Fiona Kirk of Fat Bust Forever who has written … [Read more…]
So today we decided to bake. I cheated as you can see above. I thought with Boo, it would be all about the decorating so I bypassed the baking somewhat. She had a great time putting the cases in the tray Stirring the mixture (after I had a little go myself with the electric mixer)… … [Read more…]
