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    Cauliflower Cheese

    Cauliflower.. Yum! Cheese.. Yum! Here we go…. Ingredients 1 large cauliflower (leaves cut off), broken into pieces 500ml milk 4 tbsp flour 40g butter or margarine 100g Red Leicester or strong cheddar cheese,…

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    Blackberry and Apple Crumble

    It’s blackberry harvest time now in the UK. I really love to pick and eat them and I feel that the whole experience is quite wonderful. I’ve taken a look at the season…

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    School Dinner Cake

    Do you remember being in the queue in the dining room at lunchtime when you were at primary school? What was the food you looked forward to the most? Or did you loathe…

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    Shortbread Biscuits

    The recipe for shortbread goes back around 800 years to Scotland (The Scots are marvels for invention) and was called ‘Biscuit bread’.  It was made from left over bread dough that was put…

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    Madeira Cake

    After we’d chowed down this Madeira Cake, I had an urge to reaffirm in my middle-aged brain that in fact all of my reasonings on the origin of Madeira Cake were true. That…

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    Chocolate Chip Muffins

    Ingredients: 250g plain flour 100g sugar 3 teaspoons baking powder pinch of salt 175ml milk 75ml vegetable oil 1 egg Half a teaspoon of vanilla extract 125g chocolate chips ( I only had…