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haidd garw girdle cakes

By: Kate Davies Designs September 11, 2022September 11, 2022

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Welsh cakes, girdle baked with beremeal

sourdough hot cross buns

By: Kate Davies Designs March 21, 2021March 21, 2021

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Tom’s favourite recipe for these delicious, sticky Easter buns

rainy sunday crumpets

By: Kate Davies Designs May 17, 2020May 17, 2020

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Hello everyone, Tom here with a quick idea for some Sunday morning baking. Thank you to everyone who commented on my bread post with suggestions on how to use my excess, unfed sourdough starter. I was particularly excited by the prospect of making sourdough crumpets . . . so here’s my take! Kate especially enjoyed…

one loaf or two?

By: Kate Davies Designs May 11, 2020May 11, 2020

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Hello from the farthest reaches of rural broadband . . . it’s Tom again. So, who doesn’t like fresh bread? I certainly do, but our local shops have been out of flour, of all kinds, for a couple of months, and my bread baking has been sadly on the back burner. I’ve been eking out…

Brenda’s plum cake

By: Kate Davies Designs September 14, 2016September 14, 2016

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It definitely feels like harvest season here: the swallows and housemartins have departed, we are curing our bumper onion crop for the winter, and the trees on the steading are full of fruit. Our neighbour, Brenda, has several beautiful plum trees, which have been very productive this year. So productive, in fact, that Tom has…

Carbeth star trail cake

By: Kate Davies Designs August 29, 2016August 29, 2016

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I rather like this time of year. Rowan and heather glow upon golden hills, the bracken begins to turn and every breath of wind rocks and lifts the willow herb, which flies about in clouds. The mornings are crisp, but the days are warm and the sky is always varied and amazing. Formerly for me,…

Desmond’s mince pies

By: Kate Davies Designs December 5, 2015January 4, 2016

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For many years, I’ve had a quiet obsession with riciarelli, which I first came across, flavoured with orange flower water, in Betty’s tea rooms in York. Betty’s only seem to sell these wee macaroon-y treats in Spring for some reason, so I had to persuade Tom (who does not need much persuading where baking is…