This Maple Spelt Banana Bread is simple but beautiful. It is fluffy, has a deliciously nutty flavour without nuts, which makes it suitable to your friends and family with nut and/or dairy allergy, and is just delightful with a cup of tea or coffee!
Ingredients (makes a loaf):
½ cup plain flour
1 1/2 cup spelt flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
½ teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons butter
3 over-ripe bananas
2 tablespoons demerara sugar
1/3 cup pure Canadian Maple Syrup
4 eggs
1 teaspoon Homemade Vanilla Extract
1/3 cup spelt milk
1 tablespoon pure Canadian Maple Syrup
Butter a large loaf tin, and line with baking paper. Set aside.
In a medium bowl, combine plain flour, spelt flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and salt. Give a good stir and set aside.
Melt butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Remove from heat once butter is melted; set aside.
Preheat oven to 175°C/345°F.
In a large bowl, mash bananas thoroughly with a fork. Stir in demerara sugar and half of the Maple Syrup, then add the eggs, one at a time, whisking well after each addition. Finally, gradually whisk in Vanilla Extract and spelt milk.
Gently stir spelt flour mixture into banana mixture with a rubber spatula until just blended. Then, stir in remaining Maple Syrup and melted butter until well-blended. Pour batter into prepared loaf tin, and place in the middle of the warm oven. Bake at 175°C/345°F, for 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean.
Let Maple Spelt Banana Bread cool slightly before removing from the pan, and placing onto serving tray. Brush generously with Maple Syrup, to glaze.
Cakes are an important part of a hobbit’s afternoon tea menu – this honey cake spiked with sweet mead and spices is fashioned after the famous honey cakes of the Beornings!
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I’ve wanted to try Samba Schutte’s recipe for the 40 orange cake from Our Flag Means Death since last April and that dream did not disappoint y’all this cake is so good 🧡🍊
Madeleines
The best afternoon tea cookie can be made using this madeleine recipe. You can dip the tips in chocolate or sprinkle sugar over the top. Simple and delectable.
“‘I knit them for the fishers,’ said Miss Lavinia. ‘Little enough we can do for the brave fellows going out on that dangerous sea to fetch us our dinners.’ “Buy my caller herrin’/They’re not brought here without much darin’,” she sang in a small, true soprano.
‘“Wives and mothers, maist despairin’/call them lives of men,”’ Dot joined in. ‘“Buy my caller herrin’/New drawn frae the firth.”’
‘I like that song,’ said Maíre, who had come to report sandwiches made for lunch.
‘I’ll teach it to you,’ promised Miss Lavinia.
Maíre made a little curtsey.
‘T’ank you, Missus. Now lunch is on the table and potato scones have to be eaton hot, or they’ll be spoiled completely,’ she said, ushuring Dot and Miss Lavinia into the parlour.
Ruth, the visitor, Dot and Maíre, despite protestations that her place was in the kitchen, sat down to strong tea and potato scones loaded with butter.”
Ever since I re-read Dead Man’s Chest last month, I’ve fancied trying my hand many of the recipes Ruth makes in the book (as the housekeeper and her husband, the butler, have mysteriously vanished from the holiday home Phryne is renting in Queenscliff). But as the novel is set early in the year 1929 in Australia, they are recipes for Summertime and hot days. Except for Maíre’s Potato Scones, which I reckon can be eaten year-round, and perhaps especially on Saint Patrick’s Day! Have a good one, mates!
Ingredients (makes a dozen):
1 cup plain flour
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
a pinch of salt
1 heaped tablespoon cold unsalted butter
1 cup Simple Potato Mash
1/2 cup semi-skimmed milk
Preheat oven to 205°C/400°F. Line a baking tray with baking paper. Grease lightly with butter. Set aside
In a large bowl, combine flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and salt. Give a good stir.
Cut butter into small chunks, and rub into the flour mixture between your fingers, until it resembles coarse meal.
Stir in Potato Mash, and gradually pour in milk, until mixture comes together into a soft dough.
Flatten dough lightly with your fingers into a rough square. Using a small fluted cutter, cut out 12 scones and place onto prepared baking tray.
Place in the oven, and bake, at 205°C/400°F, for 7 to 10 minutes until a lovely golden colour. Remove from the oven and let cool slightly.
Serve Maíre’s Potato Scones warm, with lashes of butter, jams, honey, and a pot of piping hot tea! (They go down a treat with a pint of golden ale, too!)
Jasmine Cookies Recipe
a cookie that you can make in advance, freeze or refrigerate, and then cut out the desired quantity each time you want a snack. The ideal setting for afternoon tea.
Recipe for Lemon Madeleines
These madeleine cookies are the ideal afternoon tea treat because they are soft, cake-like, and flavored with lemon juice and zest. 2 large eggs, 1/3 cup confectioners' sugar for dusting, 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract, 1/2 lemon juiced and zested, 1/2 cup white sugar, 5 tablespoons unsalted butter melted, 3/4 cup all-purpose flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder