Category Archives: baking

Ode to Sundays

Autumnal Sundays are proving wonderful. I boycott public transport entirely after spending six out of seven days commuting, and some weeks don’t even leave the house. Blue skies outdoors don’t tempt me far away, but we enjoy the warmth of … Continue reading

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Crumbs of knowledge

What a busy, difficult and stressful week this has become. I made these amazing and delicious chocolate-chip cookies on Monday , to cheer myself up, which are really rather lethal as I can’t seem to stop eating them. (Even staring … Continue reading

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Limes and lemons

Baking was sort of wrapped round my week-end. On Friday night I made a (key) lime pie with my boy-friend. It was amazing – the kind of dessert whereby you become a greedy, uncontrollable wreck armed with a tablespoon and … Continue reading

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cooking, culture

I received quite a few cookery books for Christmas, amongst them a copy of the Marie Claire volume ‘Kitchen’. Professing in its subtitle to be the ultimate recipe collection, it would seem from the confidence exuding from the clear white … Continue reading

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A certain gratification

A few weeks ago I took my Grade 8 cello exam, after which I made wild and lavish promises of cake to my accompanist and my cello teacher, as thanks for (respectively) being willing to play the piano accompaniment to … Continue reading

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Perfect day

How do you define a perfect day? I don’t know really. It depends on mood… The week has faded away quietly, without comment. It was half-term. I didn’t do very much, unfortunately. Today was lovely though. I spent the morning … Continue reading

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Cinnamon!

So straight after my scone-baking endeavour (which my mother repeated, sans raisins, minus a bit of milk, and plus an egg about two days later!) I decided that I wanted to make cinnamon buns. These happened to be the recipe … Continue reading

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Scones

I should think that it started with this post of Rosa’s…Although probably that was just one part of a mixture of being snowed-in at home for two days, running slowly out of food, splashing out* a few weeks ago on … Continue reading

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