Recipes from a passionate cook & foodie
Cold weather? Nothing can warm you up [or stick to your ribs] like a traditional british rice pudding. This is my families version which is made richer by the use of evaporated milk. Serves 4-6 Ingredients 4 oz (110 g) pudding rice 14½ oz can (410 g) evaporated milk 1 pint (570 ml) full fat milk 1½ oz (40 g) golden caster sugar 1 whole nutmeg 1 oz (25 g) butter 1. Pre-heat the oven to gas mark 2, 300°F (150°C). 2. Mix evaporated and whole milk together. 3. Place rice and … [Read more...]
To be fair Christmas Log was never a large part of my childhood memories - I did not discover the delight of a christmas log cake until I was in my early twenties. My family always had a fairly small selecton - christmas pudding, sherry triffle or fruit salad! Always the same, every single year. I do love all three but sometimes it would have been nice to vary it from year to year - but variety was never the source of pleasure with my family, provided it came in vast quantities they were … [Read more...]
I love pumpkin. We had my nephews over this evening, and having some organic pumpkin from Halloween still in decided that we would make an old family favourite - sweet pumpkin fritters. The kids are Harry Potter mad, and so they love them ten as much for that association! Ingredients 2 cups cooked dry pumpkin 1/2 cup plain flour 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 2 teaspoons baking powder (not soda) 2 tablespoons granulated sugar 2 large eggs oil (for … [Read more...]