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Baked Cream Cheesecake

Baked Cream Cheesecake recipe

Baked cheesecake is easy to make and absolutely delicious

Serves 10
Preparation 30 mins plus chilling
Cooking 1¼ hrs
Per portion 351 kcals, 25g fat (14g saturated)

50g (2oz) butter, melted
150g (5oz) digestive biscuits, crushed
¼ tsp ground cinnamon
500g (1lb 2oz) full fat soft cheese
125g (41/2oz) caster sugar
3 eggs, beaten
Grated rind of 1 lemon
2 tbsp lemon juice
1½ tsp vanilla extract
150ml (1/4 pint) soured cream
Grated lemon and lime rind to decorate

1 Mix together melted butter, biscuits and cinnamon. Press into base of a greased loose-bottomed 20cm (8in) cake tin.

2 Cook at 180°C (350°F) Mark 4 for 10 minutes.

3 Beat together soft cheese and 110g (4oz) caster sugar, then gradually beat in eggs. Stir in lemon rind, lemon juice and vanilla extract.

4 Pour into cake tin and bake for 1 hour or until centre is firm to touch.

5 Remove from oven and allow cheesecake to cool.

6 Mix together remaining sugar and soured cream. Spread soured cream over cheesecake.

7 Remove from tin and chill until ready to serve. Decorate with lemon and lime rind.

Recipe taken from The Dairy Book of Home Cookery

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National Picnic Week

Picnic recipes from Dairy Diary

What better excuse do you need to eat al fresco than National Picnic Week?

It’s a pastime that I think is vastly underrated and we don’t do enough.

I know I know, the British weather is challenging and unpredictable, but be inventive!

Shelter from the rain under the boot of your car clutching a steaming cup of tea, enjoy a scone in a gale on the top of a crag, nibble a sausage roll huddled around a campfire on the beach. The possibilities are endless.

Some of my fondest childhood memories
involve picnicking, in particular snuggled
in a towel on a Gower beach or on a
snowy Peak District hillside with a mug
of cold soup and a primus stove that
would not ignite!

Picnics are not only fun, but can be inexpensive too – of course, you can go to town and make the whole works; complete with hamper, posh rug and champagne – but generally you don’t need to spend much.

Dining out, especially with a family, can be very costly and a picnic is a fun, low cost alternative. With a little planning and preparation a great day out can be had by all and store up those precious memories for children in the future.

Why not challenge yourself to undertake a picnic in the strangest place you can think of? With fantastic homemade food, of course!

Start with this fabulous Picnic Ciabatta and finish off with these delicious Apricot Cookies.

Elderflowers – free food from the hedgerows

AND don’t forget the drink too. Elderflowers are in bloom, so get picking quick!

I can still remember the taste of my Grandad’s homemade elderflower ‘champagne’, 30 years later.

Of course, it wasn’t really champagne, but a fizzy elderflower pop that was just divine! As an avid cyclist and walker he would discover an abundance of elderflowers on his travels, which we would collect for his wonderful home brewed concoction. As a wartime cook – he even once cooked for the king! – my grandad was a master at frugal cooking, and what better, than foraging for free food then creating something delicious!

Try our fabulous Spiced Elderflower Cordial.

A collection of Dairy Diary recipes:
Picnic Ciabatta
Apricot Cookies
Spiced Elderflower Cordial

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Apricot cookies recipe

These delicious cookies are perfect for summer picnics

Apricot Cookies recipeMakes 36 cookies
Time 30 mins
Calories 115 per cookie
Fat 8g of which 4.3g is saturated
Suitable for freezing
Suitable for vegetarians

Butter 175g (6oz)
Caster sugar 110g (4oz)
Soft cheese 175g (6oz)
Self-raising flour 225g (8oz)
Ground almonds 75g (3oz)
Ready-to-eat dried apricots 75g (3oz), chopped
Fudge pieces 75g (3oz), chopped if necessary

1 Preheat oven to 200°C/400°F/Gas 6. Line baking sheets with non-stick baking paper.

2 Put butter, sugar, cheese, fl our and almonds into a bowl and beat together. Stir in apricots and fudge.

3 Drop spoonfuls of mixture onto baking sheets and press down lightly with a fork.

4 Bake for 10 minutes. Leave for 2 minutes on baking sheets, then lift off and cool on a wire rack.

A Dairy Diary recipe

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Pear & Ginger Trifle

A quintessentially British dessert with a twist

Pear & Ginger Trifle recipe

Pear & Ginger Trifle

This Pear and Ginger Trifle recipe is a must! It is a twist on the classic trifle flavours and incorporates ginger cake, pears, cider, custard and cream. So easy to make and so delicious – it will become a firm family favourite! A Dairy Diary recipe. For more delicious recipes visit the Dairy Diary Recipe Collection.

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Coconut Ice

They look wonderful and would make a super present.

Coconut Ice from The Dairy Book of Home CookeryMakes 50
Preparation 15 mins plus setting
Cooking 25 mins
Per portion 52 kcals
2g fat (1.3g saturated)
Suitable for vegetarians
Suitable for freezing

75ml (2½fl oz) milk
450g (1lb) granulated sugar
15g (½oz) butter
110g (4oz) desiccated coconut
½ tsp vanilla extract
Pink food colouring

1 Pour milk and 75ml (2½fl oz) water into a saucepan. Bring to the boil. Add sugar and butter. Heat slowly, stirring, until sugar dissolves and butter melts. Bring to the boil. Cover pan and boil gently for 2 minutes.

2 Uncover and continue to boil steadily, stirring occasionally, for 7–10 minutes or until a little of the mixture, dropped into a cup of cold water, forms a soft ball when rolled gently between finger and thumb. Temperature on sugar thermometer, if using, should be 116°C (240°F). Remove from heat.

3 Add coconut and vanilla. Beat briskly until mixture is thick and creamy. Pour half into an 18cm (7in) square tin lined with non-stick baking paper. Quickly colour remainder pale pink with food colouring. Spread over white layer. Leave in the tin until firm and set. Cut into squares.

Recipe taken from The Dairy Book of Home Cookery

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Ginger and Banana Sponge Pudding with Hot Toffee Sauce

If you ever need a recipe that is the definition of comfort food – this is it! Let it gently steam away while you enjoy the wonderful aromas.

Serves 6
Suitable for vegetarians
Suitable for freezing

Butter, 110g (40z) + extra for greasing
Light muscovado sugar, 11Og (4oz)
Eggs, 2, beaten
Vanilla extract, 1 teaspoon
Self-raising flour, 11Og (4oz) ~
Ground ginger, ½ teaspoon
Salt, pinch
Bananas, 2 medium
Milk, 2 tablespoons
Stem ginger in syrup, 4 pieces + 3 tablespoons of the syrup from the jar

Sauce:
Golden syrup, 4 tablespoons
Butter, 50g (2oz)

1 In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in the eggs, then stir in the vanilla extract.Sift in the flour, ground ginger and salt, then fold in lightly using a large metal spoon.

2 Using a fork or potato masher, mash the bananas thoroughly, then fold them into the creamed mixture with the milk.

3 Butter a 900ml (1½ pint) pudding basin. Slice the stem ginger and place it in the bottom of the basin with the 3 tablespoons of syrup from the jar. Spoon over the creamed mixture and level the surface. Cover the basin tightly with a piece of buttered foil.

4 Steam the pudding in a steamer or a large saucepan for 2 hours 15 minutes, making sure that the water does not boil dry, and topping up with boiling water as needed.

5 Allow the pudding to cool slightly whilst you make the sauce. Gently heat the syrup and butter together, then simmer for 1 minute. Remove the foil from the pudding, run a knife around the edge to loosen it, then invert onto a large plate. Serve with the sauce.

Cook’s tips
If cooking in a saucepan, the water needs to be about one-third of the way up the pudding basin.
To measure syrup, warm a metal spoon in boiling water or over a gas flame so that the syrup slides off easily.
Custard or single cream could be served with the pudding.

Recipe taken from The New Dairy Cookbook

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