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  • Recipe Black Currant Pound Cake
    Black Currant Pound Cake
    Whenever I see a fruit or vegetable that I don?t recognize in the grocery store I have a compulsion to buy some and then I?m not quite sure what to do with them. Usually if it?s a veggie I roast them, and if it?s a fruit I chuck them into a[...]
  • Recipe History corner ? Buttermilk currant cake
    History corner ? Buttermilk currant cake
    This recipe comes courtesy of ?The Currant Recipe Book?, published in 1945 by the wonderfully named Central Currant Office (London). This makes me hope that there were regional Currant Offices scattered far and wide.[...]
  • Recipe Apricot-Black Currant Upside-Down Cake
    Apricot-Black Currant Upside-Down Cake
    I don't usually bake with butter as some of us are supposed to watch their cholesterol intake but we had friends over for dinner and, with three lean teenagers and a four-year old also at the table, I decided to forget about restrictions and go[...]
  • Recipe Gooseberry Pound Cake with Red Currant Curd
    Gooseberry Pound Cake with Red Currant Curd
    When I am in Asturias I always take advantage of the local produce and the seasonal fruits. Few weeks ago I had beautiful cherries from a huge cherry-tree from a relative. While they were preparing grass for the cows, I[...]
  • Recipe Currant Slices with Spiced Apple syrup
    Currant Slices with Spiced Apple syrup
    It is time to punch again.Yes,this month's Sweet Punch is hosted by yours truly and we are doing Bars/Slices this month.I chose this recipe from my favorite Cake book-- 1 mix,50 Cakes .Though technically not a Bar,this one can be called a[...]
  • Recipe Gâteau à la Jacobine
    Gâteau à la Jacobine
    It is the same mixture as the cake of Savoye [this same batter is used to make lady fingers, savoiardi and other biscuits cuiller ]; make paper moulds of the same form as an éclair, six inches long; butter the moulds of paper well [I used a cast[...]
  • Recipe a balanced diet is a cookie in each hand...
    a balanced diet is a cookie in each hand...
    We made 220 mini dessert plates for a party recently. It was a lot of hard work, but so much fun! Theme colours were bright green and white, and we wanted a organic but modern look, this is what we came up with... This is not the end result but a[...]
  • Recipe Currant pound cake
    Currant pound cake
    1 1/2 c Currants 1 lb Butter 2 c Sugar 1 ts Mace 9 Eggs, Separated 4 1/2 c Sifted All-Purpose Flour 1 ts Lemon Extract 1 ts Vanilla Rinse currants in hot water, drain and dry on a paper towel. Cream butter until fluffy, add sugar and spice[...]
  • Recipe Heavenly Red Currant Cake
    Heavenly Red Currant Cake
  • Recipe Farm to Table: Red Currant Tea Cake
    Farm to Table: Red Currant Tea Cake
    I always find it amazing when I find fruits that I was used to in India, once again here, in the US, only in a different color and known by a different name. In some cases, I never knew the Indian name anyway. So, unlikely I would recognise the[...]