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Almond Cherry Biscuit
These are a typical Christmas biscuits, well…my grandmother made them during Christmas time, but they are so good that they are without a doubt, bake any time biscuit. With roots based on the famous Italian “ Pasta di Mandorle” these tiny Almond morsels are a delicious crunchy outside/chewy inside biscuit which are very difficult to […]
Lemon shortbread
Lemon shortbread is synonymous to summer time tea. After all what is a proper afternoon tea if it doesn’t contain at least one type of shortbread (and scones, afternoon tea needs to have scones for sure). Like the majority of recipes in the blog, this one hails from my grandmother’s repertoire, although she called them […]
Creamy Apple tart
This is another simple but delicious recipe. Easy to make -foolproof I would say- creamy and delicious. With Autumn only a month away, and Apples coming into season, now is the perfect time to try your hand baking with them. You can have them in Apple Pies, Tarts, crumbles, even in Jams and of course […]
Banana Bread
Banana Bread is the perfect afternoon tea bread- whether its at the pool, beachside, or simply at your kitchen table, you can’t go wrong with this delicious and moist loaf.
Oat Chocolate Biscuits
This is a really old recipe, one of the firsts I found in my grandmother’s note books. I’m assuming that rolled oats were a staple in her kitchen as I found a number of recipes in which she used this, and not just for porridge. However, hers were simply plain biscuits which I have no doubt were […]
LEMON BASIL BISCUITS
This was not one of my grandmother’s recipes, but rather a mention in one of my Victorian regency novels. The fact that Victorian ladies sat have lemon basil biscuits for their tea in my romance book fascinated me, so I delved into historical recipe books on line, and adapted the original recipe to my own […]
Lemonade Scones
Perfect scones recipe, ideal for afternoon teas (at the beach).
Pumpkin Cake
As traditions go, this cake is a slice of history. I can’t imagine that life during the second world war or after could have been easy for my family. My grandmother was separated from her husband and sent to Madeira during the war, where she had to look after her father, four children and a […]
Corn flour Cake
Who would have known that my grandmother had a gluten free cake in her recipes? I remember sitting on the beach sipping tea and having slices of this cake whilst surrounded by my family, or at least my brother and cousins, whilst the setting sun cast a shadow over our little piece of beach heaven. […]
Apple Crumble
I think its fair to say that every household in Gibraltar has a recipe for Apple crumble or some sort of other fruit crumble. It must have been one of the easiest desserts to make, plus because seasonal fruit was used, it would have been a very economic recipe to help stretch the weekly wages […]