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Recipe Round Up Giveaway

The winners are Naomi at A Three Fold Cord… and Dorothy at Fieldstone Cottage. Could you email me ann@ajbaynham.port995.com and I’ll make arrangements to send the books.

Naomi receives this book.

Dorothy has to choose two of the mini Favourite Recipe books available here

Friday’s Feast 191

Appetizer

What is the nearest big city to your home?

Birmingham, the UK’s second city.

Soup

On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being highest, how well do you keep secrets?

10

Salad

Describe your hair (colour, texture, length).

Brown, greying at the temples, very fine and short.

Main Course

What kind of driver are you? Courteous? Aggressive? Slow?

Mostly courteous, I’m not an aggressive driver but not nervous either.

Dessert

When was the last time you had a really bad week?

Not sure.

Recipe Round Up

Some photographs of the finished products. The giveaway winners will be selected randomly and I’ll publish their names on Friday morning. A big “Thank you/ Diolch Yn Fawr” for taking part, it’s been fun!

Bara Brith

Malvern Fruit and Cider Loaf

Petrol Prices

Petrol at one of the three petrol stations in Droitwich.

One of the garages was selling petrol at 112.9 pence / litre

Recipe Round Up

Today’s the day.

Juloyes , The Accidental Pastor’s Wife has a recipe for Derby Pie , it sounds delicious, a yummy dessert.

Dorothy at Field Stone Cottage has a recipe for Buffalo Chicken Wings and Half Moon Cookies mmm! .

Lots of links for Irish Recipes from Elaine at Home But Not Alone and this gorgeous Summer Fruit Pudding.

Staci at Writing and Living has a guide to Southern Illinois Chowder- soup on an epic scale .

Naomi, Three Fold Cord has a recipe for Scottish Tablet, this is very sweet and delicious!

Rosemary of Seasonings of the Heart has recipes from Colorado and Tennessee, Grilled flank Steak, Lemon Caesar Salad and Tennessee Fruity Iced Tea- I think with the recent unexpected warm weather here it’s just what I need.

Ellen, The Happy Wonderer has a variety of Russian Recipes, I’ve never cooked or eaten Russian food in my life.

Kim of Hiraeth has a recipe for Hot Dogs with Coney sauce .

Rebecca has posted recipes for Beer Batter Deep Fried Halibut , Cranberry Muffins and Cranberry Apple Pie .

Jane has posted a recipe for Cherry Veggie Dip at Rebecca’s blog.

Go to Mog’s blog for a recipe for Yorkshire Cheese Tart .

Nikkipolani has great photographs of  Crispy noodles , also, if you visit her blog she has other recipes too.

There are loads of recipes and links. I’m going to try some of them over the next few weeks.

Recipe Round Up

A quick post. I’ve a catch - up post ready for tomorrow morning UK time so if you have any recipes let me know.

Recipe Round Up

Worcestershire Recipes

I’ve lived in a small town in this county for nearly eighteen years. It’s one of the crop growing areas of England. There are lots of fruit farms nearby. It’s fun to go fruit and vegetable picking with the children in the Summer. I usually try to “pick and / dig” the vegetables for the next meal.

My vegetables are delivered by a local real organic vegetable growing farm i.e they have a “hungry season” from April to late Summer. Their web site has a recipe Section where you can print the recipes- Farm Direct Produce .

If you want an Apple Education go to Broomfields site.

More Worcestershire Tastes .

Malvern Fruit and Cider Loaf

This is crumbly texture cake I made it the easy all in one way stirring the dried fruit in at the end. This is the recipe.

1 Cup Caster Sugar

1 Cup Strong Cider ( Unsweetened Apple Juice would be fine)

4 oz Margarine

2 cups Mixed Dried Fruit

2 Cups Self Raising Flour

1 Egg (beaten)

Method

Grease and line a 2 lb loaf tin.

1. Place sugar, cider, fruit and margarine in a pan,bring slowly to the boil. Remove from heat and allow to cool.

2. Add the flour and egg.

3. Cook for aprox 1 hour at 170C / 150C( Fan Oven)/ gas mark 4.

4. Bake until golden and firm.

5. Leave to cool in the tin.

Welsh Tea Time Recipes

I make this tea bread in the breadmaker. Add the fruit at the appropriate time for your model. I use dried mixed fruit, omit the teaspoon of flour and honey. I’ve also made the bread with low fat sunflower margarine (Flora Light), it works well and reduces the fat and calorie content.

Bara Brith from Baking Mad

450g (1lb or 3 cups) Allinson Strong White Bread Flour

1 tsp Sugar

1 tsp Salt

1 tsp Mixed Spice

50g (2oz or ¼ cup) Light Brown Sugar

100g (4oz or ¾ cup) Raisins

75g (3oz or ½ cup) Currants

50g (2oz or ¼ cup) Mixed Peel

1 x 7g sachet Allinson Easy Bake Yeast

1 Egg, beaten

75g (3oz or ½ cup) Butter, melted

200ml (&floz or 1 cup) Milk, warmed

To Glaze:

2 tbsp Runny Honey

1. Place all of the ingredients (except the honey) into a mixer with a dough hook attached.

2. Mix to a soft dough and knead for 5 minutes.

3. If mixing by hand, put the dry ingredients into a bowl and sprinkle on the yeast. Mix to a soft dough with the egg, butter and milk. Knead on a floured board for 10 minutes.

4. Shape into a large circle and place onto a greased baking sheet.

5. Leave to prove until double in size.

6. Bake at 190°C/370°F/Gas Mark 5 for 30 minutes.

7. Glaze with the honey and serve while still warm.

Welsh Cakes (Bakestones)

I’ve shared this recipe before so I’m going to repost it. It’s my school Cookery teacher’s recipe.

Welsh Cakes

8 ozs Self Raising Flour

4 ozs Butter or Margarine

3 ozs Caster Sugar

2 - 3 ozs Mixed Dried Fruit

1/2-1 teaspoonful Mixed Spice

Pinch of Salt

1 Egg

Milk

Sieve flour and spice into a mixing bowl.

Add the fat and rub into the flour.

Add the sugar and dried fruit and mix.

Beat the egg lightly then add to the dry mixture with a knife to make a stiff dough. Add a little milk if necessary.

You can use a food processor to combine all the dry ingredients except for the dried fruit.

Roll dough on a floured board, about 0.5 - 1 cm thick, cut into rounds with a 5 cm diameter cutter.

Cook on a bakestone/griddle/ heavy based frying pan. Cook each side until golden.

Sprinkle with Caster sugar to serve.

They freeze well so I often double up with the mixture. They are very moreish!

Links to Welsh Recipes

Welsh Lamb With Rosemary And Garlic

This is delicious, I don’t add the wine but make gravy from the meat juices, cornflour and drained vegetable stock - leek stock is as good choice!

Here’s the link.

There are lots of traditional and contemporary Welsh Recipes at this link.

Traditional Welsh Recipes is another site .

Dudley S4C has recipes too. The presenter of the television programme travels around Wales where he cooks with local ingredients.

Wales Wide Web Traditional Recipes