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For the perfect Scottish Shortbread (beautifully buttery, crumbly and ‘sandy’) you should treat the dough as gently as possible … and at the end either pat the shortbread into shape lightly with your hands, or very lightly roll it out with a rolling pin. For our Scottish Shortbread we have chosen the most traditional of …

Although ‘pancakes’ are mainly thought of in Britain as large round discs of thinly fried batter, which are then rolled up, there are actually four distinct varieties of pancakes found in these islands and they come from the four countries, Wales, Ireland, Scotland and England. Each variety has a long history in the local regions, …

Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy Pancakes – this is a really quick and easy pancake recipe, perhaps the simplest of all the pancake recipes. And if you were wondering, the actual grown up dictionary definition of the British idiom Easy Peasy is, “‘extremely easy’, this word is used mainly by children or when speaking to children”, …

This thin pancake recipe (like the continental crêpe) has a really great blueberry sauce, which is flavoured with sloe gin (a gin steeped in sloe berries). The blueberry sauce is slightly sweet, which is balanced nicely by the pancakes and the cream. One of the best features of this dish is the colour of the …

These Pancake recipes are from Hannah Glasse’s cookery book, “The Art Of Cookery: Made Plain and Simple”, published in 1740. From the five original pancake recipes given you can see some are a little more complex, and spiced, while others are simpler and plainer. Yet all of them show how the traditional English Pancake Recipe …

This recipe makes the best tasting pancakes and bacon with maple syrup. There are other recipes, but many of them promote ‘corner cutting’ and ultimately they come up with the same tired and blandly predictable results … however this recipe is the real deal, the true classic, and really only a few extra things need …

The oldest known ‘pancake’ recipe written down comes from the Tudor period. It comes from the cook book, “The good Huswifes Handmaide for the Kitchin” published in 1588, (titled on each page, ‘A new booke of Cookerie’). The recipe is actually very similar to our modern classic pancake recipe, although it has ale and cinnamon, …

Crempog are traditional Welsh pancakes and this wonderful recipe comes with an orange caramel sauce. The only thing of note to remember when making this dish is to remove as much pith from the peeled orange segments as possible, for this use a sharp knife. The orange segments should remain intact, with a good structure, …

Excellent Small Cakes are not really ‘cakes’, they are more like large biscuits. When made these excellent small cakes should be covered with a sugar icing glaze, as recommended. The recipe cannot be faulted, the added cream lifts the ‘cake’, while the chewy fruit currants are a satisfying addition. They are simple to prepare and …