What's the Story in Dalamory » baking http://www.freda.org.uk Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:37:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Gluten Free Cinnamon date rock cakes http://www.freda.org.uk/2011/03/08/gluten-free-cinnamon-date-rock-cakes/ http://www.freda.org.uk/2011/03/08/gluten-free-cinnamon-date-rock-cakes/#comments Tue, 08 Mar 2011 17:56:41 +0000 freda http://www.freda.org.uk/?p=4437 Continue reading →]]> As explained previously, HBTW has to have a gluten-free diet, so we have been trying to experiment with baking. Shop-bought Gluten Free cakes and buns are not a great success.

Today’s Birthday Month Treat was to try and devise a recipe for a kind of cinnamon and date rock bun. And in the end they turned out very well.

Recipe:

  • 300gm Dove Self Raising gluten free flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
  • 100gm brown/demerera sugar
  • 40gm chopped dried dates
  • 40gm mixed peel or sultanas
  • 2 eggs
  • Milk to mix

Mix all the dried ingredients, add in egg and milk and use on folding setting on beater or stir well with spatula until mixture reaches dropping consistency.

Bake in around 20 small cake cases at 200C for 20 to 25 minutes.
Delicious! And good enough for Shrove Tuesday – even though they are not pancakes.



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]]> http://www.freda.org.uk/2011/03/08/gluten-free-cinnamon-date-rock-cakes/feed/ 5 Smallholding Life http://www.freda.org.uk/2010/07/21/smallholding-life/ http://www.freda.org.uk/2010/07/21/smallholding-life/#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:22:19 +0000 freda http://www.freda.org.uk/?p=3459 Continue reading →]]> Being on a smallholding has its joys as well as its problems. For example: what to do with the rising mountain of duck eggs? (21 at the moment and rising.) Yesterday was the first day of our visit when we didn’t have duck scrambled eggs – they are very rich and scrumptious, but we need a change.So…. onto the net to hunt for some ideas. So far these include:

  • lemon curd – uses two duck eggs per jar
  • lemon meringue pie – uses three
  • lemon drizzle cake – three
  • quiche  - three

Now the next problem, not being in my own kitchen is to find the appropriate tins and dishes. The smallholders themselves will be home at the weekend so all has to be tidied up before then and any failures hidden away. (Don’t worry, Family #2 we won’t try feeding them to the horses. Dogs….. maybe.)

This all feels a bit like being in an episode of The Good Life……. a long-ago favourite TV programme which you can still find on Sky or cable. Years ago when we were in the throes of children, chickens, dogs and a horse all of this would have been second nature. But nowadays it all takes a bit more planning. Of course things are made more challenging by Him Behind the Wheel having coeliac disease, that means everything has to be gluten free. But, Hey, what’s life without a challenge or two.

Baking is a good occupation for a rainy day, so time to get on. By the way, if anyone has any other ideas for using duck eggs, do let me know. They keep on laying!

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