Posts Tagged “fruit”
From Sainsbury’s Light buttermilk scones, filled with crème fraîche, raspberries and blueberries. Serves: 10 Preparation time: 10 Minutes Cooking time: 15 Minutes Ingredients 450g self-raising flour 125g butter, cut into cubes Zest of 1 orange 40g caster sugar 284ml carton buttermilk 2 tablespoons milk (for brushing over) 200ml tub crème fraîche 125g pack…
From Sainsbury’s A light sponge tray bake with a fruity drizzle topping. Serves: 12 Preparation time: 30 Minutes Cooking time: 30 Minutes Cooling Time: 60 Ingredients 225g unsalted butter, softened 225g golden caster sugar 3 medium eggs 150ml milk 225g self-raising flour 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder Finely grated zest of 1 orange…
Luscious Blueberries. Harry Hall and his family have been growing berries on their farms in Surrey and Berkshire for over half a century. I can recommend their luscious and chubby blueberries, and they are British too! Blueberries are available from June to September. They are a delicious seasonal treat, being both colourful and sweet. I…
The Perfect Cocktail Touch. It’s the season for entertaining and for many of us that means cocktails. Mixologist’s Garden offers some very classy garnishes to elevate your cocktails to impress your holiday sippers. The 100% natural fruits are freeze-dried in a flash. No additives, no E-numbers, and no allergy worries – what you see…
From Sainsbury’s A pudding that’s jam packed with fruit and liquor and full of rich festive flavour. Serves: 8 Preparation time: 30 Minutes Cooking time: 580 Minutes Ingredients: 140g unsalted butter 100g dried cranberries, plus extra to decorate 150g sultanas 100g pitted dates, chopped 100g dried figs, chopped 100g dried apricots, chopped…
Energy Balls of Flavour. Squished! It conjures an image of squashed and discarded fruit. But Squished, the company that is, hopes that all that waste will be a thing of the past. Those bin-destined fruits are the treasured ingredients for delicious treats made by Squished. The Squished journey started with three friends who wanted to…
45 Sweet and Savory Recipes for Shortcakes, Hand Pies, Salads, Salsas, and More At last it’s summer. Well, it seems that way for a few days anyway. We appreciate warm weather, light meals and those seasonal fruits. We have waited so long for those. Strawberries are delicious. We can enjoy them fresh with every meal…
It’s a tradition, still, for many of us. We await the arrival of blackberries, we collect elderflowers, we are entranced by the perfume of wild garlic. If we were lucky enough to have had a childhood spent roaming lanes, fields and forests then it’s likely that some of our most vivid memories are of collecting…
This is another one of those foods that crosses the divide between vegetable and fruit. We have that same complication with the tomato, which is technically a fruit but which is more often than not served as a savoury. Rhubarb is classified in the UK as a vegetable but in the US it’s a fruit….
Ficus carica, known to us as the common fig, probably originated in Asia Minor, and has been highly regarded as a major contributor to the diets of many countries. Figs were one of the crops that were known in China during the Tang dynasty in the 700’s BC. The fig tree was mentioned often in…