Nut Free

Strawberry Cream Eton Mess

May 30, 2011

I made this version of Eton Mess for the first time last year. The reason for mixing the puree strawberries with the cream as appose to the tradition of mixing plain whipped cream with strawberries is because I don’t like the flavour of cream plain. But I do love what cream does to flavour. It’s […]

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Clementine Pavlova with Rhubarb in Orange Flower Water

February 22, 2011

This is a gorgeous combination, you have clementine zest embedded throughout the pavlova, making what otherwise is a dull sweet shell taste strongly of citrus, it gives you a zing, topped with the cream and the sharp rhubarb mildly flavoured with orange flower water, giving the sweet meringue a necessary sharpness. The forced rhubarb has […]

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Pear & Brown Sugar Cake

January 23, 2011

I made this cake this morning while in the middle of preparing a special Sunday roast. My intent was to make one large soufflé but instead I opted to make a cake because it meant I wouldn’t have to think about dessert after lunch, no getting up from the table to pop the soufflé in. […]

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Raspberry Ice-Cream (Dairy free, Soya free, Egg free)

January 15, 2011

This dairy free ice-cream has the most delicious raspberry flavour, it satisfied my oldest daughter who can detect a non-dairy product miles away. From a flavour point of view you can not tell it’s dairy-free. The texture is not quite that of a rich velvety dairy one, it’s a cross between a sorbet and an […]

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Ice Cream or Sorbet Too Firm in the Freezer?

January 3, 2011

I’ve been working on this through the holidays, reading up on the problem of homemade ice cream or sorbet becoming rock hard in the freezer. I don’t know what you were doing the day after Christmas but I had the afternoon off and spent it enthusiastically reading up Harold McGee’s entry on ice-cream and corn […]

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