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Tea cake – a recipe

Tea cake – a recipe

‘Teabagging is a slang term for the act of a man placing his scrotum in the mouth or on or around the face (including the top of the head) of another person, often in a repeated in-and-out motion, resembling dipping a tea bag into a cup of tea.’ – Wikipedia Tea cake This is a [...]

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Spiced celeriac bake

Spiced celeriac bake

Celeriac (Apium graveolens Rapaceum Group) is also known as celery root, turnip-rooted celery or knob celery. A variation on Potatoes Dauphinoise, this dish is great served with green salad and baked potatoes. Serves 4. Ingredients 1 medium celeriac 8 fl oz or 250ml double cream or crème fraîche 2 fl oz or 50ml white wine [...]

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Pineapple and ginger ham

Pineapple and ginger ham

A whole cooked ham looks incredibly impressive on a buffet table and it isn’t as hard to make as you might think. Uncooked hams – or gammons, as they are often called – are easy to pick up in the supermarket. Choose one with a mild cure so that you don’t have to worry about [...]

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Cream of brussels sprouts soup

Cream of brussels sprouts soup

The brussels sprout is much maligned, probably because we are all sadly most familiar with the over-cooked, soggy version. Here is one of the more palatable ways to prepare them. Ingredients Butter and oil for frying 1 onion, chopped medium-fine 1 large potato, cubed 500g (1 pound) brussels sprouts, cooked or raw 500ml (1 pint) [...]

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Almond and lemon ripple ice cream

Almond and lemon ripple ice cream

Recipe Daniela Bowker and Catherine Currie Photography Libby Bulloff Model Qais Fulton Hair and make up Lindsey Watkins Ingredients Lemon curd 4 lemons, rind and juice 4 eggs 110g/4oz butter 450g/1lb sugar Ice cream 500 ml (17 US fluid oz, 18 UK fluid oz) milk 500 ml (17 US fluid oz, 18 UK fluid oz) [...]

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