Print Recipe Lace pancakes with poached plums and cardamom scented cream Serves: 20 mins Cooking Time: 4-6 Ingredients Poached plums 1L water 3 star anise 2.5 ml salt 60g sugar 12 ripe plums, halved and stone removed Pancakes 500ml (280g) cake flour 10ml baking powder 2ml salt 3 large eggs, whisked 250ml water 250ml Clover
Print Recipe Cranberry-glazed duck breast with green apple salad Serves: 4 Cooking Time: 40 mins Ingredients DUCK 4 duck breasts salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste 60ml (¼ cup) cranberry jelly SALAD 4 Granny Smith apples, finely sliced 1 spring onion, finely sliced 500g fresh watercress juice of 1 small lemon olive/avocado oil
Cook’s tip: To get more flavour into the sponge, soak in the cooled syrup. Tap into the trend of using mismatched glassware in which to serve this dessert.…
Print Recipe Spun sugar Cooking Time: 25 mins Ingredients 360g glucose 200g white granulated Instructions 1 Place the glucose and sugar in a pot over high heat. Remove from heat when the sugar has melted and reached boiling point. 2 Dip a fork into the pot at a 45-degree angle in an aired kitchen and
Pair with the Howcomely (page 68, December 2014). With an almost shortbread consistency, be prepared for guests to come back for seconds and thirds for these spicy cookies.
These bite-size snacks are packed full of flavour. The same filling can be used to make fresh cucumber or grilled aubergine roll-ups.
Print Recipe Berry ice cream served with spiced biscotti Serves: 30 biscotti Cooking Time: 2 hours plus extra for freezing Ingredients Biscotti 240g (2 cups) cake flour 210g (1 cup) castor sugar 10ml (2 tsp) baking powder 100g pecan nuts, chopped 100g dried cranberries 100g almonds 100g dried apricots, chopped 100g candied orange peel 10ml