Eclairs
These long, puffy buns are filled with cream and topped with rich chocolate icing. The buns are made with choux pastry, which is made by bringing butter and water to the boil, tipping in the flour and then beating in…
Ingredients superfine sugar
Key Lime Meringue Pie
Key lime pie is made of Key lime juice, eggs, condensed milk, and sugar in a pre-baked pie shell. The pie is then baked, and often topped with meringue or whipped cream. Other recipes (with slightly different ingredients) call for…
Sponge Cake I
Sponge cake is the most commonly-recognised variety of baked confectionery in Britain. It has a sweet taste, often flavoured with vanilla, chocolate or other additions. It can be cut and displayed in a very large number of different ways. A…
Cheese and Bacon Rolls
Ingredients Procedure Lightly grease an oven tray. Combine dried yeast, sugar and warm water. Stir together and leave covered to stand for 5 minutes (or until frothy). Mix together the bakers flour, bread improver and salt in a large bowl.…
Raspberry Scones
These raspberry scones are adapted from a recipe in page 24 of March 2023 edition of Tesco’s magazine. Ingredients 2¼ cups (300 g/11 oz) self-rising flour, plus extra for dusting ¼ cup (55 g oz) superfine sugar ¼ teaspoon salt ½ cup…
Lady Arundel’s Manchet
Lady Arundel’s Manchet is a variety of British scone made with yeast rather than baking powder. Ingredients 2 lb fine wheat flour ½ oz salt 2 oz butter 1 egg 1 pint warm milk 1 oz yeast 1 teaspoon caster…
Welsh Cakes
Welsh cakes (Welsh: picau ar y maen) are a popular cake in Wales that are similar to scones and Cornish Heavy cakes. Ingredients 450 g (2 cups or 1 lb) plain flour 225 g (1 cup or 8 oz) butter…
Lapis Legit (Many-Layered Spiced Cake)
Lapis legit (Dutch: spekkoek) is a spice-flavored multilayered cake. A legacy of Dutch occupation in Indonesia, the cake is enjoyed during Eid ul-Fitr and Christmas celebrations. In the Netherlands, the sliced cake is served as dessert in Rijsttafel (Indonesian rice…
Lumberjacks
Lumberjacks are a cookie from the Old Sturbridge Village Cookbook, and they reflect baking from 1830s New England. Ingredients 1 cup caster sugar 1 cup white vegetable shortening or butter 1 cup dark molasses 2 eggs 4 cups sifted flour…
Vanilla Ice Cream (Custard-Based)
Ingredients 500 ml (2⅛ cups) full-fat milk 5 oz (140 g) caster sugar A few drops of vanilla essence 150 ml (⅔ cup) double cream 6 egg yolks Procedure Pour milk into a pot with vanilla and bring almost to…
Summer Pudding
Summer pudding is a quintessentially British dessert made from wonderful fresh ingredients only available in the summer months. It is redolent of a private dinner at a smart country house, maybe somewhere in the Surrey hills near Shere, with the…
Shortcrust Pastry
Shortcrust pastry or shortcrust dough is a buttery, crumbly pastry dough which is often used as a base for tarts. This is an eggless version. Ingredients 150 g (½ cup) unsalted butter, softened 100 g (½ cup) caster sugar 1…