Cooking has always been a source of relaxation as well as a necessity for me. Luckily, I went into lockdown with full cupboards because a few days later I was feeling sick and self-isolating with my partner. My brain disintegrated, and the only thing I could do apart from sleep was go through the old …
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Nigel Slater’s lemon and thyme cake, Melissa
I’m not a cake maker, and don’t possess a food-processor, but there was something about this recipe that appealed and when I saw the thyme flowering on my allotment last weekend it decided the matter. The amount of ground almond makes it really moist and the thyme is an unusual but delightful addition - it’s …
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Dundee cake
I have been missing cake lately. It seems wrong to consider cake an essential item, but really it is. No icing here, just a sunburst of almonds to crunch through. Dundee cake is not as filling as Christmas cake, is extremely easy to make and cooks in far less time. This one has a mixture …
Chocolate and almond loaf cake, Aspa
On Day 14 of lockdown I felt the urge to bake a cake using whatever ingredients I could find in my larder. I hadn’t been able to find any flour in my local shops but luckily there was a packet of organic wholemeal rye flour, long forgotten in my cupboard. On the back of it …
Cooking for one 