Dessert and Baking Archive

  • Lemon, lime and poppy seed muffins

    Lemon, lime and poppy seed muffins

    Oh dear. I had planned to make a few little changes to the recipe I found for lemon poppy seed muffins but not quite this extreme. The beauty about getting a recipe from one of the well established blogs is that people will often have...

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  • Rhubarb and raspberry crumble

    Rhubarb and Raspberry crumble

    Rhubarb is available year round in Australia although I like it best in the winter. It seems to me that it’s a little sweeter and a little more red although that may just be because I’m not being distracted by sweet berries and stone fruits....

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  • Two small tarts with poached pear

    Poached pear tart

    I know, I know. I am obsessed with pears. In the last few weeks I’ve been poaching them, putting them in muffins, and behind the scenes, eating quite a few raw as well. So I promise this will be my last pear recipe for a...

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  • Soda Bread

    Four Seed Soda Bread

    What do you do when you’ve already done the shopping, bought the buttermilk, made the soup and then you realise that despite a thousand jars in the pantry it seems that only four of them have seeds in them. How can you make the Six...

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  • Poached pear with saffron

    Poached Pears

    I learned an important lesson about fresh spices today in preparing these saffron poached pears. I was almost at the end of my tiny jar of saffron and I had to admit something wasn’t quite right. Heidi’s lentil soup with saffron yoghurt wasn’t quite as...

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