“I did it without reading the script, because I said, ‘Who’s in it?’ and they gave me this great big star list: Henry...
Cakes recipes
Pastéis de Nata. Portugese egg tarts.
"No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence...
Preserved Ginger Cake with Lemon Icing
"...take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated...
Classic Christmas Cake
“It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting…” From Jumpers by Tom Stoppard With a year of lock-ins,...
Mincemeat
“It is lucky to eat as many pies as possible before Christmas, as says the dweller in London, or is the more elaborate...
Madeleines
“There is no man however wise”, he said to me, “who has not at some time in his youth said things or even led a life...
Fridge Cake [Tiffin]
“Tiffin, the midday meal, was a welcome break in the long Indian day; the pause for sustenance and prelude to a...
Tuscan Biscotti [Cantucci di Prato]
“I have come to believe that anyone who walks into a kitchen should know how to make biscuits. Biscuits are the...
Arnhem Biscuits [Arnhemse Meisjes]
Roald Dahl died in the winter of 1990. During the last year of his life he worked with his wife Felicity, known always...
Galician Almond Tart [Tarte de Santiago]
Some time ago I joined a trade delegation hosted by the commercial arm of the Spanish Embassy on a visit to Galicia, a...