This recipe for Traditional British Hot Cross Buns is my late mother’s recipe, and is one that she always used at Easter.

A Classic Yeasted Hot Cross Bun Recipe

Today’s recipe for Traditional British Hot Cross Buns has been shared on Lavender & Lovage before, but many years ago.

However, I decided it was time to give the photos a makeover, as well as sharing a new and more uptodate printable recipe card.

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What a fabulous recipe this is for Yorkshire Farmhouse Fruit Cake. A proper old-fashioned “cut and come again” fruit cake.

Vintage Recipe from Farmhouse Cookery by Mrs Arthur Webb

What a fabulous recipe this is for Yorkshire Farmhouse Fruit Cake. A proper old-fashioned “cut and come again” fruit cake.

The one that your granny or mum would serve for Sunday tea, or for elevenses. This recipe was found in an old cookbook called Farmhouse Cookery by Mrs Arthur Webb.

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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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Cherry Bakewell Tea Loaf – Another Tea Loaf! As far as I am concerned you can never have enough recipes for tea loaves

Another one for the Tea Loaf Files!

Another Tea Loaf! As far as I am concerned you can never have enough recipes for tea loaves. Today’s recipe if for a Cherry Bakewell Tea Loaf.

It’s a fabulous cake style loaf, which is very moist, with flecks and chunks of glace cherries in it, as well as flaked almonds on the top.

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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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Shetland Huffsie is a regional recipe from the Isle of Whalsay, which is one of the Shetland islands, and is richly Fruited Tea Loaf.

The Perfect Bake for a Shetland Sunday Tea

A regional recipe from the Isle of Whalsay, which is one of the Shetland islands, Shetland Huffsie (Fruited Tea Loaf), is the perfect bake for any Sunday Tea Tray or afternoon tea.

I discovered this wonderful recipe for Shetland Huffsie (Fruited Tea Loaf) when I was in Shetland recently, as part of a Viking Into the Midnight Sun cruise up to Northern Norway.

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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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Today’s recipe for Sultana & Lemon Tea Loaf Cake is an adaptation of a Fruit Cake recipe that is in a BeRo recipe book.

A Retro Recipe from a Vintage BeRo Recipe Book

Today’s recipe for Sultana & Lemon Tea Loaf Cake is an adaptation of the Fruit Cake recipe that is in the 39th edition of the BeRo Flour recipe book.

It’s a light, fruity and lemony loaf cake, baked in a loaf tin, and is absolutley lovely when served buttered in slices.

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Today’s recipe for 1940’s Golden Syrup Loaf Cake is loosley based on the late, great Marguerite Patten’s wartime recipe for Syrup Loaf

A Traditional Tea Loaf Recipe

Today’s recipe for 1940’s Golden Syrup Loaf Cake is loosley based on the late, great Marguerite Patten’s wartime recipe for Syrup Loaf.

In her recipe, there are no eggs, fats or sugar – the cake relies on flour, baking powder, golden syrup and milk.

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We love this recipe for 1950’s Condensed Milk Fruit Loaf in our house. It’s a fabulously moist light fruit loaf which is easy to make.

Retro Recipe Revival

We love this recipe in our house. It’s a fabulously moist light fruit loaf that is great when served with butter.

The recipe comes from an old Woman’s Weekly magazine from 1956. My mum cut it out and stuck it in a recipe scrapbook, which she obviously made just before she got married in 1957.

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