Tag: retro Anglo-Australian
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Old-Fashioned Pancakes with Lemon and Sugar: A Summer Breakfast Delight
When I was a kid, these simple crepes served with lemon and sugar were the only pancakes I knew until, when I was about ten, we hosted a Canadian exchange student who introduced our family to the joys of real maple syrup and the American-style pancakes, or ‘flap jacks’, as we called them back then.…
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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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Margaret Fulton’s Fairy Cakes Recipe: Delightful and Nostalgic Treat
Back in the days before cupcakes had taken over the world, there was only the humble patty cake. You could turn these cakes into butterfly cakes by slicing off the tops cutting them in half and arranging them as wings on top of a the cake with a dollop of cream (my mother used to…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 