I am benefiting from my neighbour's glut of windfall apples and, when I was making apple cake, it struck me it was a very hobbit bit of baking ( Read more... )

Strawberry kisses

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dreamflower02 has just posted a lovely traditional recipe for a bread and butter pudding - or at least in Britain it would be called a bread and butter pudding, rather than a bread pudding, because the name 'bread pudding' is given to something else ( Read more... )

I can't decide if hobbits have chocolate. But if they do, I think they might make this sort of thing with it (specifically, see the note after the recipe)

( Chocolate Torte of Joy )

I was digging around in my garage last night ("digging" being sadly realistic) and I came across an old book I'd forgotten I even had. It's called The Tolkien Scrapbook and was printed in 1978. It's got essays, fanfic (!) and .... recipes in a section called "The Middle-earth Gourmet" by Maureen Bayha and Alida Becker! I have to say that the honey ( Read more... )

This is good because it can be served hot, cold, or at room temperature. It can be dessert or side dish. And it can be made the day before and kept in refrigerator. It also freezes.

( Recipe )

( Mousse Recipe )