It’s official: Saltaire loves cake!

The phenomenon that is tea and cake sweeping these pleasant isles came to Saltaire this afternoon. The occasion?  A book promotion for the Clandestine Cake Club recipe book. I have been the organiser of the Saltaire Clandestine Cake Club group for nearly a year now...

Festive lunch menu for Saturday 15 December

Here is my seasonal lunch menu for this year.  As you will see, turkey isn’t a feature!  However, Stilton makes an appearance in a very delicious, creamy soup and of course there is  Christmas pudding.  This pudding is a hand me down through a few generations in...

A Christmas Afternoon Tea 8 December 2012

Here we are again with Christmas just round the corner; it seems like just a few weeks ago I was putting together last year’s seasonal tea!  So what’s on the menu?  Two seasonal ‘old timers’: my wonderfully moist Christmas cake that has been...

Afternoon tea Sunday 11 November 2012

Some classics on this menu for afternoon tea – sticky ginger cake and lemon meringue pie.  Ginger Parkin might have been a more typical Yorkshire choice for this time of year you might say however I’m not a big fan of it.  I love it’s ‘sticky...

Gluten Free Afternoon Tea 28 October 2012

I am really looking forward to doing another gluten free afternoon tea.  On previous occasions I have not been able to fill the whole table with coeliac sufferers.  I am pleased to say, however, that this time round, all the guests who made the first contact for this...