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This site is where I keep the recipes I use on a regular basis. This is not professional or restaurant food but ordinary cooking. Many of the recipes are variations of well known or standard recipes others are uniquely mine. I hope you find the recipes here interesting and helpful. All comments are welcome.
Because I don't normally use a lot of self raising flour I have stopped stocking self raising flour and now use plain flour and baking powder instead. As a result some of the recipes use self raising flour and some plain flour and baking powder (2tsp/10ml baking power to 250g plain flour).
Contents |
Recipes
Biscuits
Bread
Cakes
Salad
Index
Measures/Units
- Sprig
- Quart Quarter of a Gallon or just over 1 litre
- Imperial Units
- Pottle ; 2 quarts or 1.9 litres
- 1 Cup ; 236.6ml (A common American measure of volume.) Beware, a US Pint (473ml) is much smaller than an Imperial (British) Pint (568ml). Consequently, the US Fluid Oz, Quart etc. are also smaller.
- Pinch Originally the amount cought between the thumb and first finger but it is now officially 0.5ml.
Vegetables
Herbs and Spices
Safe Food Temperatures
Calories
As a rule of thumb starch foods are 350Kcal per 100gm and fatty foods are 830Kcal per 100gm. Protein foods are simular to starch at about 350Kcal per 100gm.
| Bread Flour | 100gm | 340-355 Kcal |
| Plain Flour | 100gm | 344-380 Kcal |
| Corn Flour | 100gm | 343 Kcal |
| Pasta (dry) | 100gm | 350 Kcal |
| Wholegrain Basmati Rice (dry) | 100gm | 351 Kcal |
| Pearl Barley (dry) | 100gm | 380 Kcal |
| Butter | 100gm | 744 Kcal |
| Olive Oil | 100gm | 822 Kcal |
| Sunflower Oil | 100gm | 828 Kcal |
| Beef Suet (15% flour) | 100gm | 829 Kcal |
| White Sugar | 100gm | 400 Kcal |
| Ground Almonds | 100gm | 630Kcal |
| Semi Skimmed Milk | 100ml | 50Kcal |
