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haidd garw girdle cakes

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

baking, food, History, recipebake stone, baking, bere, bere flour, beremeal, food, food history, girdle, griddle, oakden, recipe, welsh cakes13 Comments

Welsh cakes, girdle baked with beremeal

Winter’s End

Bonnie Sennot finds inspiration at Winter’s End.

sourdough hot cross buns

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

baking, food, recipebaking, bread, buns, Easter, food, hot cross buns, recipe, sourdough41 Comments

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

There is no getting away from the fact that, whatever business you are in, this year has been a very weird one. Having to change the nature and direction of what you are doing – often very rapidly – is never an easy thing, and this year there have been so many of those changes.…

rainy sunday crumpets

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

baking, food, recipebaking, crumpets, food, recipe, sourdough26 Comments

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

baking, food, recipebaking, bread, cookery, fermentation, food, recipe, sourdough, wild yeast, yeast29 Comments

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…

oatcake recipe

By: Kate Davies Designs March 23, 2020March 23, 2020

food, recipe, Scotland, textilesfood, oatcakes, oats, recipe46 Comments

After we published my oatcake-inspired cardigan, Land o’ Cakes the other day, Tom reminded me of his favourite oatcake recipe that he’d included in our Buachaille book some years ago. This is a great recipe for whipping up a quick bread-replacing staple (and as long as the mill producing your oatmeal doesn’t also make wheat…

Soul Food Sisters

By: Kate Davies Designs September 22, 2019September 22, 2019

People MAKE Glasgow, textilesbaking, feminism, food, photography, women16 Comments

Hello again, it’s Tom here with my latest update on the People Make Glasgow photo-documentary project. In today’s post it is my huge pleasure to introduce to you the Soul Food Sisters. The Soul Food Sisters are an all-female, multicultural, not-for-profit food collective. Established in 2013, this group of women are chefs on a social…

Brenda’s plum cake

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

baking, business, food, Kate Davies Designs, recipebaking, Business Women Scotland, cake, food, plum cake, plums, recipe, seasonal42 Comments

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…

Desmond’s mince pies

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

baking, featured, food, recipe, Tombaking, Christmas, cooking, food, mince pies, recipe, riciarelli77 Comments

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…

Garden beginnings

By: Kate Davies Designs May 24, 2015May 24, 2015

gardening, homefood, gardening, landscape, vegetables54 Comments

One of the things that drew us to this house was the fact that it had a garden. Or rather, it came with a nice big blank expanse of lawn that might one day become a garden. I’m not too keen on lawn, but I’ve always liked growing vegetables, and was excited by the prospect…

you say “potato” . . .

By: Kate Davies Designs April 25, 2015April 25, 2015

Bruce, Bruce, food, vegetablesbruce, Bruce post, food, gardening, planting, potatoes, spring, vegetables66 Comments

Hiya! It is I, Bruce. Today I am here to tell you about a delicious and intriguing object: the POTATO. Also known as “tattie” or “spud”, and, often (for some mystifying reason) prefixed with the adjective “humble”, the POTATO is one of my all-time favourite foods. Together with other wondrous food-objects (for example, CHICKEN, SAUSAGES…

thyme and taleggio scones

By: Kate Davies Designs January 30, 2013

food, recipecheese, food, recipe, scones, taleggio85 Comments

Neither Tom or I are fond of food shopping, yet for some unknown reason we have never ordered our supplies online using one of the many delivery services now available. I finally tried this the other day, and of course made the mistake of failing to adjust the default units under which some items are…

a few days in Cartmel

By: Kate Davies Designs December 22, 2012December 22, 2012

Cumbria, foodCartmel, Cumbria, food, L'enclume, Simon Rogan50 Comments

A pretty Cumbrian village . . . . . . festive windows . . . . . . and doors. Ben, the friendly cat . . . A fine local food market . . . And a wonderful birthday meal. In case you are wondering, the food at L’Enclume was just as amazing as you…