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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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