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Recipe: Lemon and elderflower drizzle cake
Clutch onto the floral and citrus flavours of summer with this luscious lemon and elderflower drizzle cake. This recipe is a firm favourite of our Communications and Events Supervisor Jenny, who cooked it regularly with her grandma growing up. Ingredients: For the cake: 113g caster sugar 113g butter 2 medium eggs 113g self-raising flour 1tsp…
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Recipe: Tennis Cake
Did you enjoy Wimbledon? We’ve taken the inspiration for this month’s recipe from this longstanding British sporting tournament, with an aptly named ‘Tennis cake’. First appearing in Mrs Beeton’s 1906 Book of Household Management our version is slightly simplified and uses glacé cherries rather than raisins and candied peel, for a bit of a summer…
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Recipe: Wild garlic pesto
For those of you feeling adventurous enough to head out on a woodland walk and forage for your own wild garlic, here’s a quick and easy wild garlic pesto recipe for you to try at home: Ingredients: 100g wild garlic (adjust the recipe for as much as you’ve foraged) 30g toasted pine nuts 30g finely…
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Recipe: Coffee Cake
We often hear from visitors about how much they love catching up with friends over a cup of coffee in the Winterbourne Tearoom, and in our latest blog post we discovered how one student who lived at Winterbourne as a student in the early 1950s described Winterbourne as “a place of endless coffee and chatter”.…
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Recipe: Cabinet Pudding
The inspiration for this month’s recipe comes from a Cambridge University student accommodation menu dating from 1900. Steamed puddings were a regular feature on the menu for the Cambridge students, and with Cabinet Pudding having risen to popularity in the 19th century it is very likely that this would have been served up for the…