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Competition | Win a Cocktail Kit

Competition | Win cocktail kit

Win a fabulous Cocktail Kit and 150 Party Drinks Book.

No fun party is complete without cocktails! Which is why this Cocktail Kit has been specially chosen so you have all the essentials you need to mix up a variety of cocktails and deal with any drink request!

This fun set contains the 150 Party Drinks Book, an easy to follow cocktail recipe guide with colour images.

To help get you mixing we’ve included a Manhattan Cocktail Shaker with built in strainer, a Wooden Muddler for crushing cocktail ingredients, a Freeflow Pourer and and Jigger Spirit Measure for serving spirits and a Twisted Mixing Spoon for stirring and layering cocktails.

To finish off your cocktail creations the kit also contains decorative Swizzle Stick Disc Stirrers, Foil Cocktail Umbrellas and Indoor Sparklers to really make your cocktails sparkle! A great introduction to cocktail mixing.

Kit contains:
1 x Manhattan Cocktail Shaker
1 x 150 Party Drinks Book
1 x Wooden Muddler
1 x Twisted Mixing Spoon
1 x Spirit Jigger Measure
1 x Stainless Steel Freeflow Pourer
25 x Swizzle Stick Disc Stirrers
24 x Foil Cocktail Umbrellas
10 x Indoor Sparklers

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Good luck.

Facebook competition | Three days left to win a fabulous Breadmaker

Dairy Diary Facebook competition | Win a Breadmaker

Just a three days left to enter our Facebook sweepstake!

Fancy waking to the wonderful aroma of freshly baked bread every morning?

Well you can if you enter the
Dairy Diary sweepstake and
win this fabulous Morphy
Richards Easy Use Breadmaker.

The Morphy Richards Easy Use breadmaker is far more than just a bread machine.

It features three different loaf sizes and five different crust settings with a 12-hour delay timer so you can wake up to fresh bread every morning. Over 50 recipes are included in the instruction book, so you can make full use of the 13 different programmes to make all kinds of bread as well as pizza doughs, cakes, desserts and even jams and marmalades.

The viewing window means you can monitor the baking process without letting heat escape from the chamber, and the ergonomically designed cool-touch LCD display is safe and easy to use.

Enter the Dairy Diary Facebook sweepstake today.

Good luck.

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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Competition | Win a Breadmaker for National Bread Week

Competition | Win a Russell Hobbs Breadmaker

Win Win Win! A fabulous breadmaker for National Bread Week

My other half is a baker and so I am spoilt with freshly baked bread on a regular basis.

Many people shy away from making their own bread, but it can be incredibly rewarding. I have to admit though, on days when time is short (frequently!) we do turn to our breadmaker. It’s so easy and the aroma and taste you get for so little effort is fantastic.

Obviously, to eat too much of anything is not good for you, but bread really does get a bad press. In reality, one slice has only around 85 calories and less than 1g of fat. It’s usually what we put on the bread that adds the calories!

This week is National Bread Week,
so don your pinny and get baking!

Get baking for National Bread Week

Try these fabulous Sally Lunns or Traditional Bread Rolls, both from the Around Britain Dairy Cookbook.

And for those days when time is precious…. Win a Morphy Richards Breadmaker

Enter the competition here. Good luck! 

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Behind the scenes of the Dairy Diary – meet the team

Once a month, I will give you a behind the scenes look at the Dairy Diary and you can meet the team.

We are a small group but each
one of us is very different…..
this week we meet Nick, THE BOSS!

Nick Rowe is our Executive Editor and has been working on the Dairy Diary for more than 15 years!

He is based in our Cheshire office or Eaglemoss North as he likes to call it.

Here are a few facts about Nick:

What is your role within Dairy Diary? I manage, and make sure we have a wonderful team to put the best product together we can, each and every year!

What’s the best thing about working on the Dairy Diary? Trying all the brand new recipes.

What’s the worst thing about working on the Dairy Diary? Managing the Managing Editor (ha ha says me, Managing Ed!)

Tell us something we don’t know about you. I have played in a game of football against Martin Peters* (but I am a lot younger than him!). I once showed the Dairy Diary to the Countess of Wessex – but she doesn’t cook!

What are your favourite things in life? Fuller’s beer and Adnam’s beer.

Beef WellingtonWhat is your favourite Dairy Diary
or Dairy Cookbook recipe?

Beef Wellington from
Around Britain Dairy Cookbook

 

 


* Martin Peters, MBE, scored England’s second goal in their 4:2 victory against Germany in the  1966 World Cup final.

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Win a copy of The Dairy Book of Home Cookery

Win a copy of The Dairy Book of Home Cookery

The Dairy Book of Home Cookery is loved by millions of cooks and has been brought right up to date for 2012.

Featuring 900+ recipes from soups to desserts, including baking and confectionery. 

This is an essential cookbook for both novice and experienced cooks.

Click here to enter the competition.

Competition: win The Dairy Book of Home Cookery

Win a copy of The Dairy Book of Home Cookery

Win a copy of The Dairy Book of Home Cookery

The Dairy Book of Home Cookery is loved by millions of cooks and has been brought right up to date for 2012.

Featuring extensive cooks information plus 18 chapters from soups to desserts, including baking and confectionery.

This is an essential
cookbook for both novice
and experienced cooks.

  • Over 3 million copies sold
  • 900+ recipes & variations
  • 18 chapters
  • Recipes that work every time
  • Easy-to-follow instructions
  • Essential cooking techniques
  • Nutritional facts for each recipe
  • Hints & tips for success
  • Ribbon page marker
  • Now that’s Clever Cooking!

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