baking – KDD & Co

Tom’s festive mincemeat

By: Kate Davies Designs December 9, 2023December 9, 2023

baking, food, recipebaking, Christmas, cookery, cooking, featured, food, mince pies, mincemeat, recipe16 Comments

a delicious seasonal recipe

festive oaties

By: Kate Davies Designs November 24, 2023November 24, 2023

baking, food, recipebaking, featured, festive oaties, flapjack, food, hobnobs, mince pies, recipe37 Comments

a recipe for the weekend

sourdough hot cross buns

By: Kate Davies Designs March 21, 2021March 21, 2021

baking, food, recipebaking, bread, buns, Easter, featured, food, hot cross buns, recipe, sourdough41 Comments

Tom’s favourite recipe for these delicious, sticky Easter buns

rainy sunday crumpets

By: Kate Davies Designs May 17, 2020May 17, 2020

baking, food, recipebaking, crumpets, featured, food, recipe, sourdough26 Comments

Hello everyone, Tom here with a quick idea for some Sunday morning baking. Thank you to everyone who commented on my bread post with suggestions on how to use my excess, unfed sourdough starter. I was particularly excited by the prospect of making sourdough crumpets . . . so here’s my take! Kate especially enjoyed…

one loaf or two?

By: Kate Davies Designs May 11, 2020May 11, 2020

baking, food, recipebaking, bread, cookery, featured, fermentation, food, recipe, sourdough, wild yeast, yeast29 Comments

Hello from the farthest reaches of rural broadband . . . it’s Tom again. So, who doesn’t like fresh bread? I certainly do, but our local shops have been out of flour, of all kinds, for a couple of months, and my bread baking has been sadly on the back burner. I’ve been eking out…

Soul Food Sisters

By: Kate Davies Designs September 22, 2019September 22, 2019

People MAKE Glasgow, textilesbaking, featured, feminism, food, photography, women16 Comments

Hello again, it’s Tom here with my latest update on the People Make Glasgow photo-documentary project. In today’s post it is my huge pleasure to introduce to you the Soul Food Sisters. The Soul Food Sisters are an all-female, multicultural, not-for-profit food collective. Established in 2013, this group of women are chefs on a social…

Blidö weekend

By: Kate Davies Designs July 7, 2017July 7, 2017

sheep, Sweden, travelbaking, Blidö, bread, pigs, sheep, strawberries, Sweden, travel29 Comments

What would your ideal weekend involve? Picking and eating delicious wild strawberries? Discovering a beautiful landscape on foot? And getting to spend some quality time with its inhabitants? (The Roslagsfår sheep are so sweet . . . as are their characterful piggy neighbours!) Visiting an exceptionally well cared-for wee museum and hearing all about island…

Brenda’s plum cake

By: Kate Davies Designs September 14, 2016September 14, 2016

baking, business, food, Kate Davies Designs, recipebaking, Business Women Scotland, cake, food, plum cake, plums, recipe, seasonal42 Comments

It definitely feels like harvest season here: the swallows and housemartins have departed, we are curing our bumper onion crop for the winter, and the trees on the steading are full of fruit. Our neighbour, Brenda, has several beautiful plum trees, which have been very productive this year. So productive, in fact, that Tom has…

Carbeth star trail cake

By: Kate Davies Designs August 29, 2016August 29, 2016

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I rather like this time of year. Rowan and heather glow upon golden hills, the bracken begins to turn and every breath of wind rocks and lifts the willow herb, which flies about in clouds. The mornings are crisp, but the days are warm and the sky is always varied and amazing. Formerly for me,…

Desmond’s mince pies

By: Kate Davies Designs December 5, 2015January 4, 2016

baking, featured, food, recipe, Tombaking, Christmas, cooking, food, mince pies, recipe, riciarelli77 Comments

For many years, I’ve had a quiet obsession with riciarelli, which I first came across, flavoured with orange flower water, in Betty’s tea rooms in York. Betty’s only seem to sell these wee macaroon-y treats in Spring for some reason, so I had to persuade Tom (who does not need much persuading where baking is…

behind the scenes . . .

A couple of days ago, we announced the Seven Skeins Club – a venture we’ve been planning for many months, and which we hope will allow everyone who wants to to sample our lovely new Scottish wool. (If you are interested, you can read more about what the club involves here.) People have been writing…

a handmade wedding

Thankyou, all of you, for your lovely comments and congratulations! I thought you might appreciate hearing a little more about the handmade elements of our wedding. A few years ago, Tom decided to have a kilt made. His surname is Barr, and the tartan of that name is also associated with a popular Scottish soft-drinks…

nutz

By: Kate Davies Designs March 4, 2012March 4, 2012

food, recipe, recovery, stroke, wool, yarnbaking, biscuits, food, hazelnut shortbread, knitting, recipe, recovery, shortbread, stroke88 Comments

There is no getting away from the fact that I’ve had a rough few days. Please try not to have a stroke, people: the long term health implications of it are really bloody annoying. Sometimes the process of recovery itself can add further problems to the myriad medical issues that follow a brain injury, and…

friday

By: Kate Davies Designs August 26, 2011August 26, 2011

Edinburgh, food, textiles, walkingbaking, rain, walking38 Comments

I’ve been out for a nice long ramble with Bruce. It was raining. As long as I have a) a good waterproof and b) non-leaky boots, I rather like walking in the rain. There is nobody around. The world looks different. Everything smells good. Bruce got to splash about in all sorts of wet stuff…