Italian Chocolate Truffles

These are flavoured with almonds and chocolate, and are simplicity itself to make. Served with coffee, they are the perfect end to a meal.

Peaches et Mascarpone

If you prepare these in advance, all you have to do is pop the peaches on the barbecue (grill) when you are ready to serve them. You can use nectarines…

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Appleberry Dumplings

loosely in the pastry or it will break open. To help prevent the pastry bursting open, make sure the joins are well sealed with egg. Serve the dumplings straight from…

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Fidget (Fitchet or Figet) Pie

This is an old recipe handed down through generations of farmers’ Wives and it still appears in farmhouse cookery books today. There seem to be any number of versions, and…

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Treacle Tart #2

Treacle, as we know it in Britain today, is the sugar syrup first produced as a by-product from sugar refining and production in the nineteenth century. It soon replaced honey…

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Quick Tiramisu

Mascarpone is an Italian soft cream cheese made from cow’s milk. It has a rich, silky smooth texture and a deliciously creamy flavour. It can be eaten as it is…

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