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The Best Yorkshire Pudding!

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How to make the Perfect Yorkshire Pudding What is a Yorkshire Pudding? This is often the question put to me by my Spanish friends, and probably by our readers in other parts of the world. A Yorkshire pudding is a batter pudding which was originally designed (by a Yorkshire Chef, naturally) to use up the hot fat and juices that came from the Sunday roast. The flavours obtained from the meat are soaked up by the pudding. In some parts of the North east of England, especially Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland, the pudding is served first – before the main course. … Continue reading

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Nanny Ogg’s Dinner Party

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Dinner Party Surprises from the Ankh-Morpork Kitchen of Nanny Ogg A tribute to Sir Terry Pratchett and the Disc World series of Books.  For the uninitiated, Nanny Ogg is one of the three witches which inhabit the Disc World.  This is an extract from “Nanny Ogg’s Cookbook”. Starter Everyone knows that they eat sheep’s eyes in Klatch, but no one reports actually seeing them doing it.  I call this suspicious. Oh yes, they offer them to their guests.  I bet if I lived in a desert I’d anything for a laugh, too.  This recipe is, er, restored.  That is, it’s … Continue reading

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How To Make A Traditional Spanish Omelette

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How To Make A Traditional Spanish Omelette Living in Spain allows you to learn a great deal about original Spanish recipes.  We have watched Spanish Cooks preparing all types of traditional recipes.  Over the next few weeks, we propose to pass on to you, what we have learned in our eight years of living in Valencia.  To start off the mini-series of Original Spanish Cookery, we will show you how to make this classic dish – the Spanish Omelette. When we make an omelette, including the Spanish Tortilla Omelette, we use a special frying pan which is actually a double frying … Continue reading

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