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Jonathan Spencer’s Christmas Cake Recipe
Christmas Cake (jonathans recipe) This recipe makes a 4Ib cake (approximately 1.8 Kg) great with marzipan. if you use my recipe and it works for you please either use the comment button underneath the article or the forum button at the top of the page to tell me how you got on.
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Jonathan Spencer’s Recipe for flapjack and Crunch
When I was a kid holidaying in Filey with my grandma flapjack was a thing called crunch, exactly the same as modern flapjack but crunchy, my suspicions are that modern
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Buckwheat pancake recipe
I searched and searched for a recipe for pancakes (NOT blinis) made from buckwheat. Eventually I did my own and here is the recipe. It makes a thin pancake like
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Jonathan Spencer’s recipe for Marzipan
p”Marzipan Magic: Animal Modelling Made Easy” (Maisie Parrish) The INGREDIENTS 8oz ground almonds 8oz sugar 1 large egg 1 tsp lemon juice 1 tsp brandy drop of almond essence THE METHOD Put the sugar and egg in a bowl and put the bowl over a pan of barely simmering water, and beat the sugar and egg together with a fork or a whisk for a bout 10-15 minutes or until thick fluffy. … As I said above if the mixture is alittle wet then leave over night, but this can be shaped or rolled immediately, for christmas cake it can be rolled directly onto the cake or stuck to ti with hot apricot jam (yum), coloured with food colouring and shaped into marzipan fruits…go on use your creative urges. if you use my recipe and it works for you please either use the comment button underneath the article or the forum to tell me how you got on./p
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Childhood Memories of Christmas
The Ghost of Christmas I was bought up in a detached house in south east england, built in the post war boom in the 1950′s it reflected many of the
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