Basic Recipe: Marzipan (Almond Paste)

Marzipan is an ancient sweetmeat.  One of its major uses is as a layer under icing on a rich fruit Christmas cake and also at Easter as the top layer of a Simnel Cake.  It is also used in Stollen, a rich and fruity yeast bread eaten at Christmas, mainly in Germanic and Scandinavian countries.  It can also be [...]

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Spicy Hot Cross Buns

I have long felt it is sad that we can buy Hot Cross Buns, with their crosses on, throughout the year. I’d be happy just to have ‘Not Cross’ Buns for most of the year, just putting the crosses on from Good Friday until the end of the Easter season at Pentecost (fifty-two days later) to [...]

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