The list of ingredients here is impressively short, but the technique is fiendishly difficult and needs a lot of concentration, good timing and, inevitably, a few botched attempts before you get it right. It’s worth persevering, though. Almonds coated in a crust of crystallised sugar? What could be better than that? Put 155g of almonds [...]
The coincidence of a week in Barcelona and a publisher sending me a copy of Frank Camorra’s staggering Movida Rustica cookbook has left me cooking a lot of Spanish food. I make no apologies for this, but warn that it may continue for a while yet. Movida Rustica is three hundred and sixty-eight pages long. [...]
You can never have enough proper biscuit recipes. Once you’ve mastered the basics – shortbread, gingerbread, peanut butter, etc – it’s time to seek out something a bit different. We made these thin and crispy biscuits on clearing out the kitchen cupboards and discovering the last dregs of a can of forgotten treacle. “Time to [...]
This has everything you’d want in a cake – it’s sweet, moist and delicious, it keeps well and it’s straightforward to make. I may go so far as to say that it’s nearly foolproof, but that I don’t want to tempt fate. Start – as you start every single cake baking adventure – by greasing [...]
Every now and then, I have to make a cake. The urge often strikes at this time of year, with the indulgence of Christmas a fading memory and no sign of the rotten weather passing soon. This cake provides a hint of what’s to come, using last autumn’s fruit. Line the bottom of a 20cm [...]