I found the scone recipe in the Ther­momix cook­book a lit­tle too sticky for my lik­ing, so I adapted some scone recipes from Mar­garet Fulton’s Ency­clo­pe­dia of Food and Cook­ery. This is the first of them, for cheese scones. Ingre­di­ents 450 g self-raising flour 1 tsp salt ¼ tsp dried mus­tard ¼ tsp ground […]

A sim­ple but deli­cious date and nut loaf recipe I adapted from one pro­vided by Lur­pak (Dan­ish But­ter man­u­fac­turer) in their One tin, end­less pos­si­bil­i­ties book­let. The orig­i­nal recipe was devised by Mel Ket­tle (see link to her blog).   Ingre­di­ents: 75–80g pecans or wal­nuts 200g pit­ted dates 100g brown sugar 60g but­ter, in […]