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March 24, 2012
Pineapple & Passion Fruit Jelly
This Pineapple and Passion Fruit jelly has a wonderful warming taste and a lovely golden appearance. For the best flavour, choose passion fruits with dark, wrinkled skins, and use a tart-tasting, not too ripe pineapple. A clear preserve like this jelly needs a ‘jelly bag’ to strain the fruit juice through – best left overnight. …
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February 1, 2012
Cambridge Lent Pies
These Cambridge Lent Pies are eaten before the start and at the end of Lent, which ends at Easter. The 40 days of Lent is traditionally a time of fasting in the Christian calender, and these pies were a way of acknowledging the start and end of the period. These particular Lent Pies are a …
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August 2, 2011
Christmas Loaf
In the 1920’s times were hard, being just after the 1st World War, and also at the start of the first world-wide ‘Great Depression’; and it was especially hard for the urban working class labourer’s who had little money to spend on luxuries. So as a substitute for the much richer (and expensive) Christmas Cake, …
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August 21, 2011
Gluvine (Glühwein)
Glühwein is a very popular mulled drink in German and Dutch-speaking countries, and in the border region of Alsace in France. It is the traditional beverage offered to guests during the Christmas holidays and New Year winter period. It is usually prepared from red wine, heated and spiced with cinnamon sticks, vanilla pods, cloves, star …