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  • Jumping jack flap

    Jumping jack flap

    I found some of my old goals and resolutions written down the other day. And there, in black ink, was my overwhelming desire to make healthy breakfast bars. I know, most people want world peace. I just wish for something healthy to stop me eating chocolate at 10 AM. So, I actually tried it yesterday.…

  • Rhubarb and Flustered

    Late night baking for a play school bake sale. No sugar, no time, no ideas! Until I remembered the rhubarb a friend gave me recently. Chopped up and stewed with a windfall apple, I substituted icing sugar for caster and prayed. Then I baked them with a blob of fruit compote inside and prayed. The…

  • Of berries and brothers

    Today had the real feeling of the last day of summer. We spent it outside eating a long lazy lunch with lots of children running around screaming being neither Long or lazy. I baked all morning and made, amongst other things, a pie with homegrown apples and blackberries. I used self raising flour to make…

  • Sunday morning

    Sunday morning beckons. I borrowed this book yesterday. What am I going to do today I wonder? What kind of cake would you bake?

  • Get stuck in

    Readers, I think I’ve been wupped with the Kirsty stick…I’m entering a bake-off. It’s tomorrow and above is my effort. A very sticky butterscotch windfall fruit upside down cake. I hope it’s ok. I can’t tell until they cut into it tomorrow. Gulp! The recipe is very simple, cannibalised from my old faithful the Be-Ro…