A brilliant way to get more out of lemons you’ve used for another recipe, is simply chopping the squeezed and zested pieces that you’d normally throw away and combining them with sugar in a bowl magically produces a simple lemon syrup that can be used on its own – to turn a plain sponge into ...
We tend to think of Christmas as the season of over-eating and over-spending but it’s also the season of over-buying, especially when it comes to food. In fact, we scrape the equivalent of 4.2 million extra Christmas dinners into the bin each festive season, including 740,000 Christmas puddings and 7.5 million mince pies, an Olympic-size ...
This is a great way to use up not only Easter eggs, chocolate drops or forgotten chocolate at the back of the cupboard, but also other miscellaneous snacks – anything from pretzels and ready-salted crisps, cereal and oats to Turkish delight and marshmallows. You can pretty much put whatever you want in these. I can’t ...
Christmas pancakes Preheat the oven to 200°C. Beat together 180g ricotta, 150ml semi-skimmed milk and 2 egg yolks, then add 125g plain flour, 1 tsp baking powder and the zest of half an orange and mix until smooth. In a separate bowl, whisk the 2 egg whites until stiff, then fold into the batter. Fry generous ...