English conversation… topic… English puds!
Mmm, let’s talk about apple and plum pie… … and we’ll chat about Rose’s bread and butter pudding..,.…and let’s converse about Judith’s treacle tart!
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Green tomato mincemeat… the results!
I had never thought of using green tomatoes to make mincemeat, but here it is! I adjusted the recipe, adding more spice than suggested and cooking it for ages and ages and ages in a slow oven. it went thicker and darker, and lovelier. I stirred in some dark rum before I bottled it and […]
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Autumn in Taunton
Taunton is our county town, and the River Tone flows through it; it is thirty-two miles long and rises in the Brendon Hills near the beautifully named Huish Champflower. The river does not flow directly into the sea but joins the River Parratett at Burrowbridge. Standing on the Tone Bridge, looking along the river with Deller’s […]
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