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all-american pancakes

Pastry & cake | serves 4 (makes 8 pancakes)

You don't need to visit your local diner or pancake house to enjoy a great weekend breakfast treat. This is the simplest and easiest recipe to remember and works brilliantly every time. It's all made in one bowl too, which means less washing up - always a... read recipe

appleberry pie

Pastry & cake | serves 10-12

Even though it has a strong British heritage, America has embraced the apple pie to the point that it's now considered a quintessentially American dessert. American pies often look like the pies in cartoons and comics - big, robust, and full of attitude. The... read recipe

baked chocolate pudding

Pastry & cake | serves 6

Melt 41/2 oz chocolate with the coffee, then pour into small ice-cube molds and freeze until hard. Take 6 small ovensafe 3-inch pastry rings, dariole molds or cappuccino cups and grease well with some butter. Place in the fridge while you make your sponge... read recipe

blackberry and apple pie

Pastry & cake

This is the best apple pie in the world. You can't go wrong with good cooking apples, delicious blackberries and ginger. The cooking time can depend on how freshly picked the apples are, so the best thing is to cook them until they're softened first. First,... read recipe

blackberry tart

Pastry & cake | serves 8-10

I must have made thousands of these tarts when I worked for Antonio Carluccio at the Neal Street Restaurant in London. We used to make them for the Royal Opera House, and people going to see an opera or ballet would have one as part of the poshest picnics... read recipe

bolognese polenta and apple cake

Pastry & cake | serves 8

This is a superb moist cake, a bit like a clafoutis in France, but by adding breadcrumbs and using polenta it becomes very much like an Italian bread-and-butter pudding. It's something that Italians would cook in the embers of the fire after dinner. Preheat... read recipe

butternut squash muffins with a frosty top

Pastry & cake | serves 12

My kids love these squash muffins. They taste a bit like carrot cake, as the two vegetables are very similar - I've simply swapped carrots for squash. Both of them are wonderful carriers of flavors like cinnamon, cloves and vanilla. The skin of a butternut... read recipe

chocolate fridge cake with pecan and meringues

Pastry & cake

Break the biscuits into small pieces directly into a large bowl. Add the pecans, pistachio nuts and cherries and mix together. Put the rest of the ingredients into a separate, heatproof bowl and put on a low heat over a pan of simmering water until the butter... read recipe

cornish cowboy pasties

Pastry & cake | serves 8

Marcy Tatarka, an absolutely lovely cook I met in Wyoming, was full of all sorts of local food knowledge. She told me that people in this part of America are really into their pasties! Turns out that in the 1920s and '30s, miners from Cornwall came over to... read recipe

old-fashioned sweet shortcrust pastry

Pastry & cake

This pastry is perfect for making apple and other sweet pies. Even if you've never made pastry before, as long as you stick to the correct measurements for the ingredients and you follow the method exactly, you'll be laughing. The one place where you can experiment... read recipe

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all-american pancakes
appleberry pie
baked chocolate pudding
blackberry and apple pie
blackberry tart
bolognese polenta and apple cake
butternut squash muffins with a frosty top
chocolate fridge cake with pecan and meringues
cornish cowboy pasties
old-fashioned sweet shortcrust pastry
sticky toffee pudding
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