A bakery with a unique difference
You can now order from our delicious range of sweet or savoury treats and have them delivered straight to your door via Deliveroo. Delicious menu Our hot baps, sandwiches, freshly baked bread, sweet bakery treats and hot pastries are available on the menu for customers …
The tradition involved bringing a large log into the home and placing one end in the fireplace, to feed a fire, that would last throughout the 12 days of Christmas. These days however, this tradition has all but fizzled out, for various obvious reasons, to …
Would it be Christmas without a marzipan wrapped festive fruit cake? We think not! The Christmas cake started life as plum porridge, which was designed to line people’s stomachs after a day of religious fasting. Soon after, fruits and a dash of honey were mixed …
It’s hard to say when, how or who first thought they’d bake a potato in its skin. We can’t really say they were invented. Popping a spud in the fire embers is so rudimentary, it’s likely to have been around far longer than we think. …
We’re all trying not to switch on our central heating at the moment and one way of keeping warm, along with wearing woolly jumpers and snuggling under blankets, is to eat soup. But why is soup so perfect at this time of year? Cheap & …
It’s so important these days to make sure nothing goes to waste. And this goes for when we’re carving or cooking our pumpkins this season. If you’re someone who has hollowed out a pumpkin and chopped it up in the past and discarded the seeds, …
Pumpkins have deep roots in America and were first cultivated in central American around 5,500 BC. They were one of the earliest foods the first European explorers brought back from the New World. Their first mention in Europe dates to 1536 and within a few …
We’re giving families in our community something to do during the summer holidays by inviting them and you to bring food and cuddly toys, and join us for a teddy bears’ picnic on Saturday, August 27 from 11am.
Cake itself has been around in some form since ancient times but the first references to ‘a cake to be baked in small cups’ rather than as a layer cake was in Amelia Simmons’ ‘American Cookery’ book in 1796.
Along with all the dessert lovers out there, we’re celebrating National Bakewell Tart Day (August 11). The Bakewell tart is an English classic of shortcrust pastry with layers of jam, frangipane, chopped almonds and icing. It dates back to the 19th century when a woman …