With the elderflower season in full swing – and not for long at that – I decided to make elderflower pancakes, a traditional sweet from the south west of Germany as well as parts of Switzerland. Despite the beer in the dough and the fact that they are fried, they nevertheless have a subtle elderflower…
The English seaside resorts have been in a steady decline ever since the introduction of cheap foreign travel. You can’t really blame people for wanting a bit of sun, a sandy beach and water temperatures above freezing point. The resorts try their utmost to cater for all weather conditions by providing endless indoor amusements (slot…
Today we went to visit our spiritual home, Ham near Richmond, the heart of the German community in London. Many parts of London are colonised by particular ethnic groups, who create their little bubbles of ‘Heimat‘ in the capital. Brick Lane’s Bangladeshi culture has been immortalised by Monica Ali’s novel, but other cultures have put their…
Now, once you have mastered the art of the bagel, you might want to give these sourdough bagels a try. If you liked the homemade bagels the first time round, you will find these even more chewy and delicious. The sourdough allows you to use a variety of flours, and I am following James Morton‘s…
Scones gehören zum Fünfuhrtee wie Fisch zu Chips: Typischerweise werden sie mit clotted cream, einer fast butterartigen Sahne, und Erdbeermarmelade serviert.Sie sind sehr schnell und einfach zubereitet. Statt der außerhalb Englands schwer zu findenden clotted cream kann man auch einfach Butter oder Creme Double verwenden. Das folgende Rezept kommt aus Dan Lepards und Richard Whittingtons Buch…
As I have been baking bread for a few years now, the theme for this Bread Baking Day,’ancient’, really appealed to me: as a kid at my friend’s house, we helped her granny to prepare the breads for the weekly ‘baking day’, when the communal oven was heated up and the families of the village were…
This recipe is incredibly quick and easy to make: it takes an hour, but 45 minutes of that are spent winding up your kids, checking their homework and your mail or watching the news while the stew is simmering contentedly in the kitchen. I use dried chickpeas, which I soak overnight and then cook in my pressure cooker.…
Strawberry season is our second favourite season, topped only by Christmas. We grow them in all shapes and forms, but thanks to our in-house foraging squad we never seem to have enough to bake or make anything with them. Fortunately there are supermarkets, and although it is hard to resist a nicely-presented punnet in mid-November for…
May means sunny days and warm evenings, and an al fresco lifestyle demands a suitable beverage. This May punch is a highly seasonal concoction, relying on fresh strawberries as well as sweet woodruff, a sweet-scented plant often found in shady or neglected areas of gardens or in forests. Sweet woodruff is very popular in Germany, which makes this…
To start off my Countdown to Rio, here is my Italian entry. After all, they got to the finals of the Euro 2012 (after beating Germany in the semifinals. I can still feel the pain). Pesto surely must be the most popular Italian export after the Fiat 500. Here in Britain you can even get…
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