Taste of Glasgow

This recipe is another of those great desserts that you can cook in advance of any guests coming round. The actual preparation time should not take you longer than about ten minutes but the baking time is a bit longer. As long as you know how to melt some chocolate and seperate an egg you [...]

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I am as guilty as the next person of taking the easy option when a dessert required some custard on the side and simply opening a can of Ambrosia Custard and heating on the hob but over the past few months I have actually been going off the taste. I don’t know whether it is [...]

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Apple crumble is one of those great autumn desserts, as it is quite hearty and filling. I sometimes even just skip having a main course and have a bowl of chunky soup to start with and then some of this crumble with homemade custard for dessert…. mmm ! This recipe does not take long to [...]

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Having just looked over the last few dessert articles that I published I really should be trying something different as I always seem to be making various types of tarts or pies… Lemon Meringue Pie, Treacle Tart, Key Lime Pie…. well here is another one for you, Lemon Tart! In the past with the lemon [...]

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Here’s a little bit of summer fun from the Chef Patron of the Sisters restaurant Jacqueline O’Donnell: Strawberries in Tarragon with Peppered Puff Candy Ingredients: 2 punnets of Good Natured Strawberries 1 tbsp finely chopped tarragon 4 tbsp sugar 2 tbsp golden syrup 1 tspn baking soda A grinding of pepper to finish Method: Toss [...]

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Tony Singh’s Rhubarb and Custard Ingredients For the custard: 600mls double cream 100mls milk 100g caster sugar 12 egg yolks from the green eggs! 1vanilla pods For the biscuits: 400 g flour 200 g unsalted butter, at room temperature 1 egg 200 g darkest brown sugar you can get 60g Powdered Molasses or powdered dark [...]

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