Recipes

Autumn baking at its cosiest! Polly's classic pumpkin pie recipe is all we can talk about this week at L&F HQ. Warm spices, creamy pumpkin filling and the perfect buttery biscuit base. The ultimate treat for crisp autumn days, cosy...

Father’s Day looms and all across the country barbeques will be being dusted down and fired up. Whether you’re cooking or being cooked for; veggie, vegan or a dyed-in-the-wool carnivore; a father or someone’s child, there’s very little that beats...

No, not a typo – for some reason at least one of the children found ‘marbalade’ easier to pronounce when small than ‘marmalade’, and so it has been named ever since.  Here, February is the month of making the stuff...

You asked and we listened: after the run-away success of a video showing nothing but my rather stubby hands making a load of mince pies, we have had people year round asking for the recipe.  Ever eager to oblige, here...

We’re getting into Dangerous Territory now.  August is birthday month at L&F with one husband and both sons requiring cake and presents on the 5th, 10th and 25th – as you read this, we will all five of us be...

It’s SO nearly Easter now, that we thought the time was right to introduce those of you unfortunate enough never to have met one of these before, to the uber traditional Simnel Cake.  The 11 balls of marzipan on the...

Well, nearly.  Last year we gave you the American style pillowy ones, and you loved them.  This year we’re going for the more refined, delicate little papery thin fellas of my youth – and having canvassed your opinion on Insta...

So now that we’ve all gone entirely state-side, and we have learned to embrace our American friends’ version of Halloween with all it’s spookiness and sugar, what to do with the innerds of the pumpkins you’ve assiduously carved?  Simple.  Rinse,...

Right.  That’s it.  It’s properly May now, and as believers in the power of positive thought, we are determined that the rain has finished: enough.  And to celebrate?  Well CAKE, obviously.  Or in this instance, cakey muffins – we find...

It’s cold, wet and grey outside and the ONLY answer on a day like this, is pancakes.  Not your thin little whispy crepe thingies: thick, delicious, warm and fluffy American-style pancakes.  They may not be exactly what the doctor ordered...

... so named, because they are!  The key here is the mincemeat:pastry ratio, and the lack of lid.  Traditionally I do a star for each, and I will draw a veil over the behaviour of some of my family -...

There is NOTHING better, on a crunchy brown autumn morning, than a cinnamon bun and a cup of proper coffee.  Believe me: I have done extensive research on this.  Perhaps sitting on the back step, maybe kicking through the leaves...

No excuse needed! Every day tends to be cake day here at L&F HQ and if it ends in a y, we think that’s a good enough reason to whip up our absolute all-time favourite, Carrot.  As a special treat for...