Baking From Back Home and Beyond!
Butter or Milk or Neither? Buttermilk sounds like something fanciful from the olden days, but it’s actually a staple ingredient in a lot of today’s Irish baking and well, just good food really. Have you had buttermilk pancakes? Then you get the idea. Buttermilk is a key component if you […]
I believe there should be a difference between sweet shortcrust pastry that you use for sweet pies, and savoury shortcrust pastry for savoury pies. The main ingredients for this recipe are the same, with a few subtle tweaks, depending on which type of pie you are making. Here is my […]
Or Pagan Moon Buns, As They Once Were… “Give them to your daughters, Give them to your sons, One-a-penny, Two-a-penny Hot Cross Buns!” Now that our daughter is old enough, this song has plenty of meaning this year as I baked hot cross buns the whole month leading up to […]
At the start of this year I was getting requests for comfort foods such as savoury pies, to see us over the colder months. I love a steak and Guinness stew, so the next step is clearly going to be transforming it into a savoury pie. There are many beef […]
I’m Zara Patterson and I'm from Northern Ireland. I've been living in Barcelona since 2006 and sometimes I miss the food from back home. So I decided to start baking again...
