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How to bake a classic white loaf of bread
Amanda's Homemade White Bread What’s the quickest way to make a visitor to your house think you’re a domestic goddess? Fill your house with the smell of baking bread. And no, a ‘freshly baked bread’...
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Easter Bunny Blondies Recipe
My mother would be proud – I’ve definitely inherited her inability to throw away anything that ‘might be useful someday.’ Especially if that thing involves chocolate! Going through my pantry the...
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Apple blackberry muffin recipe
Breakfast crisis on Saturday morning: no sausages or bread in the house for a Proper English Breakfast! What to do?! I usually eat a bowl of oatmeal with cinnamon for breakfast … but on the weekends...
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Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
I learned to cook from my mother. She is the original inspiration for vintage savoir faire. Mom is a country girl transplanted to the east coast with a bit of 1960′s organic/crunchiness about her. I...
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Bacon cheddar scones
I cannot stop eating these scones. Nor can Zak or his coworkers. They are That Good. These scones were born out of a crazy birthday gift of an All Bacon Themed dinner. Every food served during the...
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Chocolate Orange Hot Cross Buns
A long, hot, sunny Easter weekend in London. The perfect time to be in front of a hot oven! But I was, in pursuit of another English classic – the hot cross bun. My problem with the traditional hot...
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Make your own vanilla extract – the results!
Want to try making your own vanilla extract? It’s super simple and the results are just as good as store-bought – maybe even better! Earlier this year I tried turning an unwanted bottle of vodka into...
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Infused sugars for coffee, cocktails and baking
You know when you’re in a fancy food shop and you find the most precious, gorgeous little bottle of something which would add such a magical finishing touch to your recipes? Then you turn the bottle...
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Vintage Cookies: Snickerdoodles
I know I am supposed to posting more recipes from my big weekend extravaganza of homegrown produce. But I got distracted by cookie baking. This happens a lot to me. I just love baking. Especially...
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Want to learn how to bake bread? Video tutorial.
Do you know how to bake bread? Have you wanted to learn? Baking bread is one of those things that sounds so intimidating at first. When I mention I’ve been baking bread at the weekend, I inevitably...
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