a delicious seasonal recipe
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Sunday links
advent colour and festive baking
Read Morefestive oaties
a recipe for the weekend
Read Moreapples
palate and palette
Read MoreCarrot
a tale of palate and palette
Read Morehaidd garw girdle cakes
Welsh cakes, girdle baked with beremeal
Read Morecup of tea and bere loaf
a simple tea loaf, baked with bere
Read MoreWinter’s End
Bonnie Sennot finds inspiration at Winter’s End.
Read Moresourdough hot cross buns
Tom’s favourite recipe for these delicious, sticky Easter buns
Read Morea chat with Misa Hay
There is no getting away from the fact that, whatever business you are in, this year has been a very weird one. Having to change the nature and direction of what you are doing – often very rapidly – is never an easy thing, and this year there have been so many of those changes.…
Read Morerainy sunday crumpets
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…
Read Moreone loaf or two?
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…
Read Moreoatcake recipe
After we published my oatcake-inspired cardigan, Land o’ Cakes the other day, Tom reminded me of his favourite oatcake recipe that he’d included in our Buachaille book some years ago. This is a great recipe for whipping up a quick bread-replacing staple (and as long as the mill producing your oatmeal doesn’t also make wheat…
Read MoreSoul Food Sisters
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…
Read MoreBrenda’s plum cake
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…
Read MoreDesmond’s mince pies
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…
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