Baking for Britain
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Lindsay's Description:
Anna has been baking her way around Britain, trying out the many wonderful regional recipes that can be found in our heritage rich country. These delicious regional recipes are accompanied with a detailed history and fun facts, making Baking for Britain both intellectual and tasty at the same time, what a combination!
Anna's Description:
Baking my way round the United Kingdom, trying out regional specialities, traditional ingredients etc., and generally making (and sampling) nice things to eat in the cake, biscuit and bun line.
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Recent Updates at Baking for Britain
Ruby Wedding Cake - the Winner!
13 November 2010
Finally, I can post about the recipe that won my vote for my parents' celebratory Ruby Wedding cake. Their anniversary fell towards the end of September, but for various reasons we did not have a family hurrah for them until the end of October. We met up at a country house hotel ...
Ruby Wedding Cake - A Call for Recipes!
17 August 2010
My parents are to celebrate their Ruby Wedding Anniversary (40 years) next month and I would like to bake for them a special cake, reminiscent of their wedding cake which was an iced rich fruit cake in the tradition of most British wedding and celebration cakes. Naturally I have pages and pages of ...
Shooting Cake for the Glorious Twelfth
13 August 2010
Hello again, at long last I am here to bring you more baking and this time I am here with my junior chef, Ellis. I confess that I have been motivated by the arrival on my doorstep of a book sent by Grub Street, Elizabeth David's 'English Bread and Yeast Cookery'. It seemed churlish, if ...
I'm still here... only now I'm over here!
10 February 2010
Hello to readers old and new. It has been an AGE since I last posted, but with good reason. For the last, ooh, well over a year, I have been in the process of setting up an online bead shop Big Bead Little Bead. Ever since our son was born I have been looking for work that I can do from home and ...
Shetland Bride's Bonn/Bun or Bridal Cake
08 August 2008
Shetland bride's bonn/bun or bridal cake was traditionally baked by the mother of the bride. It was broken over the bride's head as she entered the marital home after the wedding ceremony and was intended to bless the marriage with prosperity and fertility. This breaking of cake was a wedding ...
Deddington Pudding-Pie, Oxfordshire
19 May 2008
Earlier this month I was in Deddington, Oxfordshire. Deddington is a small market town with many interesting old buildings, houses and much history. I was there for a family get-together, so I had little time to explore - only enough for a short walk, and to take two scene-setting photos (taken ...
Banbury Cakes Revisited
01 May 2008
Whilst in Deddington, Oxfordshire, and already feeling inspired for my next post (I am obviously on a roll at the moment!), I came across a shop that sold genuine, 100% authentic Banbury Cakes. Banbury is just up/down the road from Deddington. Having previously made these, I bought myself a ...
Digestive Biscuits
26 April 2008
Digestive biscuits are one of our most popular commercially-baked biscuit varieties - the chocolate-coated version gets wolfed down in the UK at a rate of 52 biscuits a second, according to the website of United Biscuits, one of the major producers. Don’t look at me. I can probably only manage ...
Happy Birthday to Ellis...
27 February 2008
Our little boy turned one on Monday, and we held a family birthday tea the day before. Apart from the birthday boy himself, my attention over the previous week had been on 'the cake'. Having children is an excuse to bake fantastical celebration cakes and play with day-glo icing colours that ...
Shrove Tuesday Pancake Festival, Hitchin 2008
05 February 2008
Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday, is the final day pre-Lent. It is the day for clearing your cupboards of eggs and butter (historically both forbidden, along with other foods such as meat, during Lent), and for shriving (confessing sins and asking forgiveness). Pancakes have for many ...
