Chocolate Teatime Tiffin – Make this Chocolate Teatime Tiffin for a teatime treat, or for elevenses, and the school (or office) lunch box

A Delecatable No-Bake Chocolate Treat

Who doesn’t love an easy to make “no bake” sweet recipe, and today’s recipe for Chocolate Teatime Tiffin is exactly that.

Using leftover cake, biscuits, dried fruit, butter, golden syrup and chocolate, it’s a “melt and set” recipe that is quite simply delectable.

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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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A handy online recipe book to Beat the January Blues with Tea Loaf & Cake Recipes. I have selected some of my favourites for you, ENJOY!

Tea Loaf and Cake Recipes for the Sunday Tea Tray, Elevenses and Afternoon Tea

Hello! It’s already the third week in January, Blue Monday has passed, thank goodness and in the UK, we are experiencing extremely cold weather.

I am quite enjoying the colder temperatures, it’s a chance to do (what I think we should all be trying to do in January), hiberbate and embrace a slower lifestyle pace.

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My first recipe for the New Year! Happy New Year to all my readers! And, it’s a fabulous tea time cake recipe for Cranberry, Mincemeat & Ginger Tea Loaf

A Simple Twelfth Night Cake using Festive Leftovers

My first recipe for the New Year! Happy New Year to all my readers! And, it’s a fabulous tea time cake recipe for Cranberry, Mincemeat & Ginger Tea Loaf.

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Gingerbread Tea Loaf – This lovely recipe for Gingerbread Tea Loaf is over 70 years old, and has been featured in numerous Be-Ro cookbooks.

Perfect for Bonfire Night or Winter Tea Tray Supper

This lovely recipe for Gingerbread Tea Loaf is over 70 years old, and has been featured in numerous Be-Ro cookbooks.

I made it from the 26th edition, which was my late mother’s book. She always had this little book out, and baked from it all of the time.

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Scottish Treacle Scones: This wonderful recipe for Old-Fashioned Treacle Scones is a family favourite, especially when served warm with butter

Scottish Treacle Scones for Halloween, Bonfire Night or a Sunday Tea Tray Supper

This wonderful recipe for Old-Fashioned Treacle Scones is a family favourite. Although I make them all year round, they are traditionally served in the Autumn, and Winter.

They are served in Scotland, and the Scottish Isles, for All Hallow’s Eve, as well as in Northern England, especially Northumberland, Yorkshire, Cumbria and Lancashire.

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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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Honey Ginger Tea Loaf – Autumn blew in with a vengeance today, but this BeRo recipe for Honey Ginger Tea Loaf soon cheered us up.

A Vintage Be-Ro Recipe for the Tea Time Table

Autumn blew in with a vengeance today – it was a wet, windy and drizzly day. But, today’s recipe for Honey Ginger Tea Loaf soon cheered us up.

This is a recipe from one of my much-loved BeRo recipe books. 

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Autumn Cakes and Bakes – a selection of seasonal recipes for the Autumn tea time table, as well as treats for the school lunch box

Seasonal Treats for the Autumn Months

Autumn is my favourite season, a season which heralds the annual harvest, as well as the prospect of golden Indian Summer days.

And with that comes the pleasure of welcoming in more comforting food and recipes, as well as Autumn cakes and bakes.

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We LOVE tea loaves here at Chez Lavender & Lovage, and today’s recipe for Stem Ginger & Golden Syrup Tea Loaf has become a firm favourite.

The Lavender & Lovage Tea Loaf Files

Yes! It’s another tea loaf recipe – we LOVE tea loaves here at Chez Lavender & Lovage, and today’s recipe for Stem Ginger & Golden Syrup Tea Loaf has become a firm favourite.

It’s a variation of my already popular recipe for 1940’s Golden Syrup Loaf Cake, but with sultanas and stem ginger added.

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