Oat Nut Crust No flour. 1 cup rolled oats 1/2 cup ground walnuts 1/2 cup ground almonds 1/4 tsp. sea salt 1/4 cup water 1/4 cup barley malt 3 T. corn oil Mix all the ingredients together in a large mixiing bowl.  Press mixture into the bottom only of a lightly oiled 9 or 10 […]

I am fairly certain this little recipe began with my father who loves gardening – a hobby that I most certainly inherited.  In fact both of my grandfathers were gardeners at different scales – one owned hundreds of hectares of farmland in Ecuador where he grews cacao, rice, bananas and everything else you can imagine, […]

Vintage Welsh Lemonade 1 lemon 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda 1/2 pint water sugar Squeeze the lemon juice into the water and add sugar to taste.  Add the bicarbonate of soda, stir and serve immediately. From Customs and Cooking From Wales by Sian Llewellyn Published by Celtic Educational (services) Ltd. Swansee First published 1974

Election Cake What an opportune time to go back to the time of the very first settlers and revisit their Election Cake.  Here it is from the delightful Plimouth Colony Cookbook itself: 2 cups raised light dough 1 cup butter 2 cups sugar 3 eggs 1 teaspoon soda in 1 tablespoon warm water 1 cup […]