Cranberry sauce recipe

I have just made this and taken photographs quickly with flash. The recipe is mainly for my niece but I thought anyone might be interested. It is my own personal combination from a variety of recipes as I like the addition of the orange and cinnamon flavours. Here is a copy of my recipe card.… Read More Cranberry sauce recipe

22 December 201822 December 2018 Rainbow Junkie2 Comments

Strawberry cake

Now that recipe I mentioned last Monday. In my recipe book it is called ‘Danish’ strawberry cake but as it is a ‘Cordon Bleu’ cookbook I don’t know how authentically Danish it is. As we were going to be five for lunch that day, I decided that I needed to make double quantities as I… Read More Strawberry cake

29 October 2018 Rainbow Junkie2 Comments

Oat Bread recipe

Last weekend I decided to try making some oat bread. I thought I would share the recipe with you. This is how I made it, slightly modified from the book I got it from, though I have given the full quantities not the half amounts that I used. You start with 8oz wholemeal bread flour,… Read More Oat Bread recipe

20 September 2018 Rainbow Junkie10 Comments

Making marzipan fruits and Christmas baking

One thing I like to do when the occasion arises is to make marzipan fruit. I don’t think I learnt to make these either from my mother or school; I think it must have been a book or leaflet. For those of you who have never tried this is what you need. Some marzipan, of… Read More Making marzipan fruits and Christmas baking

22 December 201622 December 2016 Rainbow Junkie9 Comments

Not quite a recipe!

First a little story. I am very fond of the flowers of the Japanese quince (Chaenomeles), I had one in the last house, so when I moved here I planted one in the garden. However a few years ago it became infested with a pest that covered it in fine cobwebs and which died down… Read More Not quite a recipe!

16 November 2015 Rainbow Junkie10 Comments

February Montage

In February I shared some knitting, crochet and a recipe plus a couple of photographs. The light has not always been good for photographs this month. For knitting I showed you my first attempt at a new way of knitting a short row heel with a chart and link in case anyone else wanted to… Read More February Montage

1 March 201519 January 2016 Rainbow Junkie6 Comments

Another tea-time treat

When I was a child chain-letters were very popular but having had the process explained to me I never had anything to do with them except for once when my mother was the recipient of a recipe chain-letter. We decided that you couldn’t go far wrong with that and took a chance. In the event… Read More Another tea-time treat

23 February 201512 September 2018 Rainbow Junkie15 Comments

Yummy Beetroot greens

When I buy beetroot from the greengrocer’s, I like to buy it when the leaves attached are fresh and green. Then I have an extra vegetable to enjoy. First, I remove the leaves from above the red stems. I cut off the beetroot and they go in the fridge for another day. I keep the… Read More Yummy Beetroot greens

30 October 201412 September 2018 Rainbow Junkie2 Comments

Millionaires’ Shortbread recipe

This is one of my children’s favourite treats and I am pretty fond of it too. The original recipe came off the back of a tin of condensed milk over fifty years ago. The home made version is so much better than any commercially produced version I have ever tasted, so it is worth making… Read More Millionaires’ Shortbread recipe

25 September 201412 September 2018 Rainbow Junkie13 Comments

August Montage

Quite a variety in August. Only one crochet item this month which was the star bunting f0r my elder daughter’s birthday that I have been making over the last few months, mainly during bus or train journeys. (This is not to say I have not been doing other crochet and even knitting this month.) No… Read More August Montage

4 September 201427 September 2014 Rainbow Junkie6 Comments

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