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When I turned 30, I went to Devon on a week-long patisserie course at the Ashburton Cookery School.
It was a lovely way to spend a week; there were 8 of us in total and the tutor was really friendly. We were based in a beautiful kitchen and the tutor demonstrated various things, which we would then make. The small class size meant that the tutor was always around to help, which was so valuable – as a trained chef, his techniques and tips were great. Continue reading “I made a delicious quiche”
I have a lovely book, part history and part cookbook, called Tea Fit for a Queen. I love the Queen, so this was a wonderful and very appropriate birthday present from a lovely friend one year.
There are lots of lovely things to make, but I wanted to make something savoury because I don’t do a lot of savoury baking on this blog.
Continue reading “Salmon and dill tartlets fit for a Queen!”
As we know, I’m a year behind on my ‘cooking from my calendar’ series. Nevertheless I’m carrying on and so here is July’s recipe, which I actually made some time in September 2018 for a party that my parents were going to.
The recipe is strawberry, ricotta, lemon and cream tart.
So. Let’s discuss.
This post is from 2018 and was saved in my drafts, but I didn’t publish it. So now, a year later, here it is…!
I have previously tried to make sweet pastry twice; once in my flat in the middle of summer and once on a pastry course in the middle of summer. As sweet pastry mainly consists of butter, and funnily enough butter just melts when it’s hot, neither ended particularly well.
So, one morning I turned off all the heating in my flat. It was snowing outside which, coupled with no heating, made my kitchen (my whole flat really) like a fridge. ‘Perfect conditions to give sweet pastry another go,’ I thought. I used a Mary Berry recipe – been a while since we’ve seen one of those on here hasn’t it!
So in another blog post I wrote where I cooked from a cook book from 1975, I mentioned two very vintage recipes in it that I said I would tackle.
As I travel back to the 70’s, join me as I open the Be-Ro book once more and tackle Tuna and Egg Turnovers, and Pineapple Upside Down Cake…
Continue reading “Throwback Thursday: really vintage baking with Be-Ro”