Tag: baking

• 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.…

  Pollie Math

  October 7, 2013

  baking

  baking, breakfast bars, flapjack

• 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…

  Pollie Math

  October 1, 2013

  mixed bag

  apple, baking, cakes, rhubarb

• 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…

  Pollie Math

  September 22, 2013

  baking, Family

  baking, Blackberries, brownies, friends, Garden, Summer, Thai, wine

• 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?

  Pollie Math

  August 18, 2013

  baking

  baking, cake, family, great British bake off, relax

• 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…

  Pollie Math

  January 13, 2013

  baking

  Bake off, baking, Be-ro