This is a nice & easy Old English recipe for Bakewell tart, which doesn’t require any ground almonds. The shortcrust pastry is crisp and buttery, while the sponge filling is soft, fluffy, with classic frangipane flavours, and the topping is a simple glace icing. The Cookery of England Book This recipe for Bakewell Tart comes …
A collection of British vintage recipes that are ideal for our home kitchens, as the classics are always the best! Here, you can expect to find recipes from the early 20th century up through the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s.
Think tasty old recipes from British books such as Be-Ro, McDougall’s flour, Stork, The Dairy Book of
Home Cookery, wartime recipes, Country Kitchen magazine, Simply Delicious recipe cards, Marguerite Patten recipes and recipe cards, Good Housekeeping, and much more!
American Pancakes
This vintage recipe for American Pancakes comes from my copy of ‘The Dairy Book of Home Cookery’. This pancake recipe is quick and easy and produces a delicious golden, fluffy pancake with crispy bits along the edges and a nice savoury flavour. They are perfect for both savoury meals and dessert. The original recipe suggests …
Traditional Flapjacks
This recipe for Traditional Flapjacks creates authentic British old-fashioned flapjacks with just three ingredients: demerara sugar, butter, and rolled oats. The result is a buttery, crispy-edged, chewy, oaty biscuit that is irresistible and perfect with a cup of tea. The recipe for these flapjacks is from the 1978 ”Good Housekeeping Cookery Book” which is a …
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Jocks Loaf [fruit loaf]
This old recipe for Jocks Loaf is a type of tea bread, fruit loaf cake, or boiled fruit cake. The original recipe can be found in the book Highland Housewives’ Cook Book, which is a collection of 250 homely recipes collected from Scottish Highland households and published in the early 1970s by The Highland New’s Group, …
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Digestion Biscuits [old farmhouse recipe for digestive biscuits]
This old farmhouse recipe for digestion biscuits creates a crunchy biscuit that is rather similar to a Hovis biscuit or cracker (the sort found in Jacob’s biscuits for cheese tubs), with the texture and flavour of modern digestive biscuits, although these digestion biscuits are much chunkier. They are also rather like a thick Scottish oatcake. …
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Cornish Fairings [biscuits]
Cornish Fairings are delicious everyday biscuits, perfect for filling up your biscuit jar and enjoying alongside a nice cup of tea or coffee. These biscuits date back centuries and were originally sold at old English market fairs. If you enjoy ginger nut biscuits, you will love fairings, which are crunchy, chewy, and packed with warm …
Country Tea Bread
This is a homely old country tea bread recipe dating back to at least the 19th century England, when tea breads were prepared with leftover tea from the pot and local honey. Tea breads were enjoyed for tea time alongside an array of home-baked pies, sandwiches, and other tasty savouries. Ingredients The ingredients you will …
Farmhouse Tea Loaf
This is a nice and easy everyday farmhouse tea loaf that would look great on any kitchen table. It is perfect for filling up the cake tin and for feeding to guests along with a steaming hot pot of tea. This tea loaf only needs 6 everyday ingredients – hot tea, granulated sugar, mixed dried …