Tag: afternoon tea
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Warburtons Crumpets Recipe: Perfecting the Practically Perfect Crumpet
We are now in week 10 of lock down in Sydney, we’re hitting massive vaccination targets but we don’t seem to be any closer to the end of this thing. I feel like I’ve gone through most of the seven stages of grief over these ten weeks – denial, anger, depression, bargaining and finally to…
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The Easiest Apple Cake Recipe You’ll Love
I’m not a huge apple cake fan, I find the whole idea of apple cake a little humdrum. When someone tells me they’ve made an apple cake my heart doesn’t automatically leap, I mean there’s a limit to how amazing an apple cake can be… right? That was what I thought until I tried this…
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Simply Delicious Wholemeal Cinnamon Snacking Cake Recipe
I have a slightly ambivalent relationship with cake. I mean, I like cake well enough but I don’t love it. If I’m going to make something sweet, I prefer to bake some cookies because they have a longer shelf life and they don’t require the commitment of cake. Once you bake a cake, you really…
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Eggless Indian Savory Shortbread Recipe: Khara Biscuits for Tea Time
I love dunking biscuits in tea but I get a bit sick of sweet biscuits, so these Indian khara biscuits are perfect for a savoury dunking experience. Indian vegetarians don’t eat eggs – their baked goods tend to be ‘eggless’ but not vegan, as dairy is used. Some Indian cooks use vegetable shortening in these…
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Ina Garten’s Lemon and Buttermilk Pound Cake Recipe
Although I do not really consider myself much of a cake cook, I do bake cakes – because if you’re going to eat cake, it might as well be homemade. Everyone needs a ‘slam dunk’, great lemon cake in their repertoire and this is mine because it manages to strike the perfect balance between lemony…
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Nostalgic Homemade Pikelets: A Childhood Favorite
Pikelets, or drop scones, were one of the first things I can remember cooking as a kid. We had an old fashioned electric frypan, which was perfect for cooking fritters and pikelets. I would sit up on the kitchen bench next to the frypan and help my older sister spoon out the batter and…
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Classic Buttermilk Scones Recipe for Traditional Australian Morning and Afternoon Teas
One of my earliest memories is of my mother taking me to her weekly Country Women’s Association meetings while my older brother and sisters attended school. We lived on a farm just outside Wagga Wagga and my mother attended a small rural branch of the CWA near the farming community of Brucedale, where we lived.…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 