First, make the pastry: Place the flour and fat(s) in a mixing bowl and rub the fat in until the mixture resembles fresh breadcrumbs. You can do this by hand using fingertips or with the flat beater of a stand mixer on a slow speed. Make a well in the centre and add most of the...
Seed cakes appear in cookbooks from the seventeenth century, but only really became a cornerstone of the tea table in the eighteenth. They were a different beast then; sugary cakes also said something of both your status and sensibilities, so other things were added. Hannah Glasse added allspice...
Or they are sloppy in the way they seal the panzerotti, meaning when you cook them, they burst open and their ricotta filling is lost to the raging boiling water around them. Sometimes, crazy people, like my mother, put spinach in the filling and this not a happy Romano does make. He...
LikeLupercalia, Spanksgiving weaves festive fun with impact play, but America’s preeminent autumnal holiday has its own special, sublime, personal and political meaning. For many Americans,Thanksgiving, while delicious, is a deeply conflicted, stressful, often hypocritical, overstuffed family feast whe...
LikeLupercalia, Spanksgiving weaves festive fun with impact play, but America’s preeminent autumnal holiday has its own special, sublime, personal and political meaning. For many Americans,Thanksgiving, while delicious, is a deeply conflicted, stressful, often hypocritical, overstuffed family feast whe...
‘Tiffin’ is an old Anglo-Indian word meaning ‘light snack’ or ‘nibbles’, but over time, the word ‘tiffin’ evoled to mean ‘luncheon’, whereby ‘tiffin time’ meant the time for a light, refreshing midday meal. It would consist of cakes and scones, curries, rice, noodles, and...
to be consumed during Lent. The poorer Catholics of Ireland were often left to eat only oatcakes for the 40-day period. On Good Friday, the Friday before Easter Sunday, the Irish eat hot cross buns, a light, bread-like pastry topped with a frosting cross that holds spiritual meaning. ...
Ever heard the term “Shoddy”, meaning something cheap, poorly-made, something of no real quality, and which just falls apart? This is where it comes from – cheap, secondhand cloth, used to make cheap, secondhand clothes. Being a pieceworker was one of the safer jobs that kids used to...
They also demonstrate the importance and benefit of cooking the recipes oneself, rather than simply reading them. There are several occasions too where the authors are at a loss as to Ann’s meaning or point in some of her comments, many of which seem to be nonsensical or simply ‘...
This Christmas I also provided recipes for a complete Christmas dinner (something else I’ve been meaning to do for years as well) with recipes forroast turkey and giblet gravy, fool proofroast potatoesandBrussels sprouts(with bacon and prunes). As per usual there was a boozy recipe for Chri...