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Sunday links

By: Kate Davies Designs October 6, 2024October 6, 2024

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Slop, Terroir, Stevie

Tom’s festive mincemeat

By: Kate Davies Designs December 9, 2023December 9, 2023

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a delicious seasonal recipe

festive oaties

By: Kate Davies Designs November 24, 2023November 24, 2023

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a recipe for the weekend

sourdough hot cross buns

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

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

zwiebelmuster

Nicole Wagler tells us about eighteenth-century porcelain and her sense of place in Meissen

YOLK!

Yes, I am standing in a frozen landscape dressed as a fried egg – what of it?

rainy sunday crumpets

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

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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

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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

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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…

Brenda’s plum cake

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

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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

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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…

Bunnets!

Friday is pattern release day, and today I have for you a pair of bunnets. Bunnet is a colloquial Scots term for a hat. The word bunnet is etymologically related to the English bonnet, and the French bonnet, but while the English term has predominantly feminine associations, the word bunnet is most often used in…