I hope you enjoy this new new recipe I’ve just created, for Overnight Sourdough Vanilla & Buttermilk Pancakes. Perfect for a weeekend brunch

Using Freshly Fed Sourdough Starter or Sourdough Discard

Hello from a warm but windy Lincolnshire, and our Saturday brunch……..this a new recipe I’ve just created, Overnight Sourdough Vanilla & Buttermilk Pancakes.

Made with sourdough discard, or freshly fed, bubbly sourdough starter, can I just add, these are absolutely delectable.

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Today’s recipe for Quick and Easy Spice Cake (Tea Loaf) is a fabulous recipe from an old BeRo book, and makes a lovely tea loaf style cake.

Baking with BeRo – A Vintage Recipe

I’m back in the kitchen today, for weekend baking, and today’s recipe for Quick and Easy Spice Cake (Tea Loaf) is a fabulous recipe from an old BeRo book.

I made this recipe EXACTLY as shown in my late mother’s BeRo book, and just as the title of the recipe says, it is indeed very easy.

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Vintage Tea Time Recipes – A selection of vintage tea time recipes, from 1910 right up to the 1970’s. All of them perfect for any Sunday tea tray suppers you may be planning.

Historical and Heirloom Baking & Cooking

There has been a big resurgence in Vintage Tea Time Recipes, as people turn to what their mothers and grandmother’s used to bake and cook.

It’s not just the nostalgia, or the fond memories of cosy tea tray suppers, it’s all about simpler recipes and using every day ingredients, which most people will have in their pantry or kitchen cupboards.

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1960's Evaporated Milk Chocolate Cake is a much-loved family recipe from an old Be-Ro cookbook. It first appeared in edition 24 which was published in 1961

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A favourite recipe that my mum and grandmother used to make, Be-Ro Victoria Scones, made from the recipe in an old Be-Ro cookbook.

Retro Baking for the Weekend

A favourite recipe that my mum and grandmother used to make, Be-Ro Victoria Scones, made from the recipe in an old Be-Ro cookbook.

These scones always made an appearance on the tea time table, and I plan to serve them this weekend on my weekly Sunday Tea Tray.

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Buckingham Palace Fruit Scones – Today’s recipe for Buckingham Palace Fruit Scones is a right Royal recipe, shared by The Royal Pastry Chefs. These scones would be perfect for the Coronation.

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A Special Coronation Recipe for King Charles III

Today’s recipe for Buckingham Palace Fruit Scones is a right Royal recipe. Every year, The Royal Residences cater for several Garden Parties, where over 27,000 cups of tea, 20,000 sandwiches and 20,000 slices of cakes are consumed!

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This lovely little vintage recipe for Condensed Milk Afternoon Tea Cakes is my adaptation of a recipe found in an old cookbook, “Farmhouse Fare“.

JUST Four Ingredients in the Recipe

This lovely little vintage recipe for Condensed Milk Afternoon Tea Cakes is my adaptation of a recipe found in an old cookbook, “Farmhouse Fare“.

The recipe has JUST 4 ingredients in it, and the recipe makes between 20 and 24 dainty cakes that are just delicious, espeically with a cuppa.

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Nearly every Sunday, on Instagram, I share photos, a menu and recipes for my Sunday Tea Tray Supper. My posts are always very popular, so I thought why not share them here too.

Musings, Menus, and Recipes for a Cosy Sunday Tea Tray Supper

Nearly every Sunday, on Instagram, I share photos, a menu and recipes for my Sunday Tea Tray Supper. My posts are always very popular, so I thought why not share them here too.

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Today’s recipe for Easy Royal Parsnip Soup is an adapted recipe that I found online, by Tim O’Leary, on The Royal Parks website.

Made in the Pressure Cooker (Ninja Foodi 14-in-1)

Credit: Lia Leendertz

Today’s recipe for Easy Royal Parsnip Soup is an adapted recipe that I found online, by Tim O’Leary.

It’s a great way to use up any spare parsnips that may be languising in the vegetable basket after Christmas.

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Today’s recipe for Old-Fashioned Malt Loaf is based on an old BeRo recipe for sultana malt loaf, which is rich, dark and beautifully sticky.

A Classic Traditional British Tea Loaf

Today’s recipe for Old-Fashioned Malt Loaf is a huge favourite of mine. It’s based on an old BeRo recipe for sultana malt loaf, and this gorgeous, sticky, rich and fruity loaf gets better the longer you leave it.

I made a loaf at the weekend, and left it sitting in the pantry ready to receive copious amounts of butter for our “Clocks Back Sunday Tea Tray” supper, by the fireside.

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