Just a quick recipe tweak. Made another batch of these last night and realised that I’d only put the American oven temperature on this month’s Recipe of the Month page and newsletter. Had a sleepless night worrying about Brits burning their meringues to a crisp at 250 degrees C so the correct temperature is 250 [...]
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Recipe of the Month – Claudette Colbert’s Rice Bubbles Cream Meringues
Ahh, it’s rolled around very quickly this month. Only 28 days in February so no wonder. I’ve chosen something cute as I am just in that kind of mood. This was a recent discovery on the world wide interweb that made my heart glad. I’ve sent it over to Brian at Caker Cooking as I know how he [...]
Claudette Colbert’s Blueberry Pie
I made this for my pre-birthday dinner and it was pastry-heavy but good. Really easy, just bung in the blackberries with some sugar, cornflour and salt then dot with butter. Sainsbury’s had run out of shortcrust pastry so I used puff – which looked pretty but I think shortcrust would have been better. I am [...]
Claudette Colbert Cake
Stripes! Claudette’s cake is not for the faint hearted. It has taken me about 2 and a half hours to make but I have to say, it is BEAUTIFUL! It’s a perfect cake to make at Easter as it is all yellow and lemony. I have decorated it with mini chocolate eggs. There is a [...]
Claudette Colbert Cake
Ooh, I had an outfit a bit like that on Second Life. Been so long since I went there though I’ll have forgotten how to do everything I’m sure. I did enjoy meditating by the fountains with doves flying around though. Oh and I did like my little witches’ familiar – a little owl with [...]
Claudette Colbert’s Claudette Colbert Cake
I’ve been putting off testing this as it looked like a bit of a challenge. It was, but it was worth it! Basically I made a Rita Hayworth’s Angel Cake then followed Claudette’s instructions for fancifying it with home made lemon curd filling and lemony frosting. Oh YUMSKI as my French colleague Marie-Agathe put it. [...]
Claudette Colbert’s Claudette Colbert Cake
“I know what’s best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody.” Oh what a lovely day it was yesterday! I was DJing with my wind-up gramophone at the Home Movie Day at the Cinema Museum and it was so gorgeous to see everyone dressed up in cinema [...]
Claudette Colbert’s Claudette Colbert Cake
“It took me years to figure out that you don’t fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it.” I’m going to the hairdresser tomorrow – I may well take this picture in and get my fringe done like Claudette’s. She is the star I am supposed to look most like – according to [...]
Claudette Colbert’s Caramel Custard
“Govern a family as you would cook a small fish – very gently.” OK so Claudette wore a very nice hat throughout “It Happened One Night” but her Caramel Custard wasn’t up to much. However, I blame the double boiler – I need to practice. And maybe actually the quote above about cooking a fish [...]
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