by Richard | Mar 24, 2022 | Blog, Cooking, history, Homemade, Recipe
Making Homemade soft cheese is both easy and rewarding and can start you on a quest leading to greater things. Cheese in all is various forms has been part of Human culture for thousands of years and its true origins are unknown. Principally it began as a means of...
by Richard | Mar 10, 2022 | Blog, Cooking, Homemade, Recipe
Baking Sourdough Bread Having made the Sourdough Starter (Levain) you can now embark on making your own Sourdough Loaves. If your starter has been dormant you will need to bring it back to life by feeding and watering it a few days before using. As mentioned last...
by Richard | Mar 3, 2022 | Blog, Cooking, Foraging, Homemade, Recipe
For anyone who loves toast there is nothing finer than Sourdough bread to make it from. This traditional loaf is thought by many to be the domain of specialist Artisan bakers and many are willing to pay accordingly for it. But it is actually fairly easy to make...
by Richard | Nov 24, 2019 | Christmas, Cooking, Homemade, Recipe, Winter
Christmas Pudding. There are many variations now but the traditional version should be a fruity sponge with citrus and spice. Traditionally it would have 13 ingredients representing Jesus and his 12 disciples. Stir Up Sunday started back in Victorian times, and was a...
by Richard | Mar 5, 2019 | Blog, Cooking, Glamping, Recipe, Spring
It’s Shrove Tuesday / Mardi Gras / Pancake Day and traditionally as the last day before the start of Lent, luxury or rich foods were finished off before the fasting of Lent. The pancake symbolises such foods for ‘Mardi Gras’ which literally means Fat...
by Richard | Dec 8, 2018 | Christmas, Cooking, history, Homemade, Recipe, Winter
The traditional Christmas cake is the merger of two dishes traditionally eaten around the Christmas period, Plum porridge or pottage and the Twelfth Night cake. The plum porridge was first cited in 1573 and was traditionally eaten on Christmas Eve. It was also the...
