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Picnic Recipes

Here are some of the recipes we use for  Pilgrims picnics. Why not try baking some of these yourself?.

Lavender biscuit

Digestion biscuits

Nut roast

Beetroot Chutney

Powys energy bars

Carrot Cake

Bara brith

Lavender Biscuit

 Lovely accompaniment

for fresh fruit salad

Hand baked at

Pilgrims Tea-rooms

Brecon Cathedral

Containing lavender flowers

grown in Cathedral Close

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100g butter, softened

50g caster sugar

150g flour

25g rice flour

lavender flowers

Cream until light & fluffy.

Using fork, stir in flour & rice flour.

Mix with fingertips. Cut into 2” rounds.

Bake 15 minutes in oven

Temperature 170C/325F/Mark 3

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Digestion Biscuits

(Oat Biscuits for Cheese)

 

Most ingredients provided by winners

of True Taste of Wales Awards

 

Bacheldre Mill Flour, Oatmeal

Welsh butter,

Beacons free range eggs

Halen Mon Salt, Bicarb.

Hand baked by award winning Pilgrims Tearooms

Mix ingredients & roll out on floured board.

 Cut out rounds to

½ cm. thickness

Bake in pre-heated oven at 175C/350F/Mark 3

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 Nut Roast for Powys Picnics

Delicious served cold in sandwiches

 with beetroot chutney.

 

50g butter

2 large onions chopped

1 stick celery

2 (Powys) parsnips, cooked & mashed

225g finely chopped nuts

120g bread crumbs

1 tsp thyme

2 free range eggs

150 ml. vegetable stock

pepper, salt

Melt the butter and gently sweat the onion & celery

 in the melted butter until soft.

 Mix the stock with the eggs

then add to all the other ingredients.

Season well.

Place in lined loaf tin

Bake at 190c/375F/Mark 4 for 40 minutes.

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Beetroot Chutney

Particularly delicious with nut roast sandwich

 

1600g beetroot, 400g onions, 1 kg. apples

2 cloves garlic, 900 ml. malt vinegar,

 200g mixed vine fruit,

400g demerara sugar,

4tsps salt, 1 tblsp pickling spice

 

Place beetroot & vinegar in a large pan,

Simmer until soft.

Skin and chop the onions and garlic.

Peel, core and slice the apples.

Tie the pickling spice in a piece of muslin.

 Add all ingredients to the pan.

 Stir well using a wooden spoon.

Simmer gently for about 2 hours.

Stir occasionally until the mixture

 is reduced and thickened.

 Remove bags of spice.

Pot in sterilized jars and seal.

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Flapjacks

(Powys Energy Bars)

 

250g Welsh Butter

250g Demerara Sugar

2 tablespoons Welsh Honey

300g Rolled Oats

Ingredients supplied by Good Food of Builth Wells.

Crops of organic oats

currently being grown in Powys

on a trial basis.

 

Melt butter and honey in saucepan. Stir in oats.

 Mix well and turn into prepared tins and press flat.

 Cook in pre-heated oven (160C/325F/Mark 3)

for about 35 minutes.

Cool in tin for 10 minutes

and cut into fingers.

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Carrot Cake

150g. Self raising flour, 2 tsp. baking powder

125g Muscovado Sugar, 50g Walnuts

100g. Carrots, 2 free range eggs

150 ml. Sunflower Oil

Note: walnuts, carrots and eggs

 are local products.

 

Carrot Cake Topping

150g Low Fat Soft Cheese, 50g Welsh Butter

100g Icing Sugar, Few drops of Vanilla Essence

Walnut Halves to decorate

Pre-heat oven to 180 C /350F/Gas 4.

Grease & line 8” deep tin.

 Measure all the ingredients for cake into a large bowl

 Mix well until thoroughly blended and smooth.

Turn into the prepared tin and level the surface.

Bake in pre-heated oven for about 50-60 minutes

 until cake is well risen.

 Allow to cool completely on a wire rack.

Topping: Measure all the ingredients

except the walnuts into a bowl.

Mix well until smooth.

Spread over top of cake & decorate with walnuts.

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Bara Brith

 

350g Mixed Vine Fruits,

200g Self Raising Flour,

 150g Dark Muscovado Sugar,

1 Free Range Egg,

300ml.Welsh Tea, 1 tsp. Mixed Spice

 

Soak the fruit and sugar in the tea overnight.

Sift flour & spices together. Lightly beat egg.

 Add flour mixture and egg to fruit and tea.

Beat thoroughly until well mixed.

Grease & line an 800g loaf tin

with greased greaseproof paper.

Turn mixture into tin. Bake in moderate oven

180C/350F/Gas Mark 4 for 1 ½ hours

until teabread is well risen

Turn onto wire rack to cool.

Store for a day or two

 Slice and serve buttered. Delicious!

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