Baking – You’re at your Aunties

Granny Wylie’s Gingerbread

When my dad came over to stay this summer we talked about his mother’s recipe book and the recipes he remembered her cooking when he was a child. He remembered the cheese pudding and scones. My dad told me that his mum was part of a sewing bee, she would meet with her friends inContinue reading “Granny Wylie’s Gingerbread”

Feather Cake, Page 3

So I’m thinking light sponge cake, so let’s see shall we! By the way no page 2 just a newspaper clipping. I’ll share later. Ingredients Method Cream butter and sugar, add eggs and milk well beaten. Missing is the instructions for the flour, I suggest sieve flour and baking powder and fold into mixture untilContinue reading “Feather Cake, Page 3”

All consuming baking

I haven’t been writing, but I have been baking. Here is what I’ve been up to.

Baked Vanilla Cheesecake with Lemon Curd Topping

My friend Praline at school where I work, suggested starting up the Cake Club. It used to run before I started working at the school. Anyway it was my turn and I made my baked vanilla cheesecake with homemade lemon curd. This isn’t a recipe from my gran or my aunties this is my own.Continue reading “Baked Vanilla Cheesecake with Lemon Curd Topping”

Lemon Meringue Pie

I have fond memories of going with my parents to visit my great aunt Jean and Nellie’s in their flat, Morley street, Langside near Battlefield south of Glasgow when I was quite small, maybe 8 or 9 years old. It must be my first foodie memory. It had that quintessential smell of a time goneContinue reading “Lemon Meringue Pie”