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Home-Cooked Harvest

4 Crowd-Pleasing Treats

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4 Crowd-Pleasing Treats

You know the story too well – harvest looms ahead and you scrabble around the cupboards looking for some tinned goods to donate to the local church/school/community group.

This year, why not break the mould and wrap something homemade and delicious to donate to the older members of your community. Or bake some delicious morsels to sell and raise money for a local charity?

Take inspiration from the brand new 2017 Dairy Diary and the recently released Dairy Diary Favourites cookbook. Here’s a selection of scrumptious bakes as a taster of what the books have to offer.

Savoury Bacon & Herb Loaf

  • Servings: 4
  • Difficulty: easy
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Calories 327 per portion
Fat 11g (5.2g sat) per portion
Suitable for freezing

Ingredients

  • Streaky bacon 50g (2oz), chopped
  • Onion 1, peeled and finely chopped
  • Celery 2 sticks, chopped
  • Self-raising flour 225g (8oz)
  • Butter 25g (1oz), softened
  • Milk 150ml (¼ pint)
  • Egg 1, beaten
  • Chopped parsley 1 tbsp
  • Dried mixed herbs ½ tsp

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 180°C/160°fan/Gas 4. Grease a 450g (1lb) loaf tin or 16cm (6in) cake tin.
  2. Dry fry bacon in a frying pan for 2 minutes, then add onion and celery and cook for 5 minutes until soft.
  3. Sift flour and ½ tsp salt into a bowl and rub in butter.
  4. In a jug mix milk with egg and herbs and season. Add to dry ingredients with bacon mixture and mix together. Spoon into tin and bake for 50-60 minutes until risen and golden. Cool on a rack.

Coffee Battenburg

A twist on the classic Battenberg and even more delicious! This mouthwatering Coffee Battenburg is a Dairy Diary recipe. For more delicious recipes visit the Dairy Diary Recipe Collection.

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Oatie Melting Moments

These cute, little, oaty biscuits are melt-in-the-mouth, and the perfect sweet treat alongside a hot drink. These delightful Oatie Melting Moments are from the Dairy Diary. For more delicious recipes visit the Dairy Diary Recipe Collection.

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Orange Cake

This cake is moist, delicious and perfect for cutting up and sharing. A zesty and zingy Orange Cake from the Dairy Diary. For more delicious recipes visit the Dairy Diary Recipe Collection.

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Chocolate Brownies recipe

Chocolate brownies

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Chocolate Brownies 

Time 55 minutes.
Per portion: 122 Kcal, 4g fat (1.6g saturated)
Makes 16
Suitable for vegetarians
Suitable for freezing

Prunes in fruit juice 410g can
Eggs 2
Caster sugar 110g (4oz)
Cocoa powder 50g (2oz)
Plain flour 50g (2oz)
Baking powder 1 tsp
Cook’s dark chocolate 75g (3oz)

1 Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas 4. Line an 18cm (7in) shallow square tin with greaseproof or non-stick baking paper. Snip the paper at the corners, press it into the tin and secure the corners with paper clips.

2 Drain the prunes, remove the stones and put the fruit into a liquidiser or food processor. Blend to a purée.

3 In a bowl, whisk the eggs and sugar until they are pale and frothy and the whisk leaves a trail of mixture when lifted above the bowl.

4 Fold in the prune purée, then sift in the cocoa, flour and baking powder and carefully fold in.

5 Pour the mixture into the prepared tin and tilt to level the mixture. Cook for 30-35 minutes until the cake is well risen and a skewer comes out cleanly when inserted into the centre. Leave the cake to cool in the tin.

6 Meanwhile, break the chocolate into pieces and place in a heatproof bowl. Stand the bowl over a barely simmering saucepan of water, ensuring the bottom of the bowl doesn’t touch the water. Melt the chocolate, then spoon it over the cake and spread in a thin layer. Leave to set.

7 Lift the cake out of the tin, peel off the paper and cut into 16 squares.

 

Recipe taken from the new Fantastic Food For Less cookbook.

Cinnamon & Raisin Flapjacks

Cinnamon & Raisin Flapjacks

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Cinnamon & Raisin Flapjacks

These delicious little Cinnamon & Raisin Flapjacks are the perfect nibble for when you fancy a little treat. A Dairy Diary recipe. For more delicious recipes visit the Dairy Diary Recipe Collection.

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Summer Fête Lemon Cake

Summer Fête Lemon Cake

 

Summer Fête Lemon CakleNutritional information

Makes 16 squares

Time 1–11/4 hrs

Calories 246 Fat 10g of which

6.2g is saturated

Suitable for vegetarians

Suitable for freezers

 

Ingredients

Butter 175g (6oz), softened

Golden caster sugar 175g (6oz)

Lemon 1, finely grated zest and juice

Eggs 3 large

Self-raising flour 225g (8oz)

Baking powder 1 tsp

Fondant icing sugar 225g (8oz)

Jelly oranges and lemons, sliced to decorate

 

Instructions

1 Preheat oven to 180ºC/Gas 4. Beat together butter, sugar, lemon zest, 1 tbsp juice, eggs, flour and baking powder using an electric mixer. Spoon into an 18cm (7in) square cake tin, greased and lined, and bake for 35-45 minutes or until firm. Leave to cool in tin for 10 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack.

2 Sift icing sugar into a bowl and gradually beat in enough lemon juice (and water, if necessary) to make a smooth thick icing. Spoon on top of cake and spread evenly with a knife.

 

A Dairy Dairy recipe.

Hand-made Christmas cards

Hand-made Christmas Cards | Christmas crafts

Family and friends love to receive hand-made Christmas cards

Hand-made Christmas cards

Are you feeling festive yet? December is just around the corner, so it’s time to make a start on your Christmas cards.

Time is short for the majority of us,
but it’s so special to send hand-made
cards that it’s worth the effort.

They don’t need to be excessive, or take hours to make – a few simple touches can be used to maximum impact.

So grab a laptray and a few materials and you can knock up cards in no time whilst perched on the sofa watching Coronation Street!

Equipment

  • Pencil
  • Christmas papers
  • Scissors
  • Blank cards
  • Double-sided tape
  • Embellishments; assortment of any: ribbons, diamonte, buttons, Christmassy sequins

Method

  • Draw a stocking/bauble/present shape on the back of a Christmas paper.
  • Cut out shape and stick onto a blank card using double-sided tape.
  • Adorn with embellishments of your choice, but try to use co-ordinated colours for maximum impact.

Win a Bumper Christmas card-making kit

If you fancy making your own Christmas cards don’t miss the chance to to win a Bumper Christmas card-making kit  on 26 November. Make a note of the date to revisit Dairy Diary Chat!

 

And while you are making your Christmas cards, why not treat yourself to a little something?

Custard Tarts recipeThese Custard Tarts from
Britain’s favourite diary
are just the job.

Recipe taken from
Dairy Diary 2013.

National Baking Week

National Baking Week recipes

This week is National Baking Week and it just so happens to be my birthday week too!

For the past few days I have been leaving cookbooks open at appropriate pages hoping that my hints for a gorgeous homemade birthday cake will come to fruition.

I just hope it’s my other half
who takes the hint rather than
my children, whose attempts
could be calamitous!

National Baking Week was set up to celebrate good old British baking and to raise vital funds for Great Ormand Street Children’s Hospital (GOSH).

Baking is all about having fun, whether baking to relax, baking with your children, baking with friends, or simply enjoying the fruits of your labour with a cuppa. Why not host a bake sale at work, school or at a local event?

Visit the website for a downloadable info pack http://www.nationalbakingweek.co.uk/downloads.

Here are the recipes I have been hinting at. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do!

National Baking Week recipes

Frosty Top Lemon Loaf  and Cranberry Bread Pudding

 

Take a Box of Eggs, Dairy CookbookThe delicious Cranberry Bread Pudding
recipe is just one of 100 fabulous recipes
you can find in the new Take a Box of Eggs
cookbook available now for just £7.49.

Take a closer look!

 

 

 

 

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