Old Fashioned English Dessert Recipes

OLD-FASHIONED COCKTAIL

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients.
• Place a sugar cube or sugar in an old-fashioned glass and saturate it with bitters. Muddle or stir to mix.
• Add the whiskey, fill the glass with ice, and stir well .
• Express the orange peel over the drink before dropping it into the glass: Twist up the peel and give it a good squeeze (directed toward the glass, not your eyes) and bits of citrus oil will spray into the drink. Add a cherry if you like.

OLD-FASHIONED ENGLISH DESSERT

Steps:

• Grease a baking dish.
• Spread the margarine on one side of each slice of bread and slice diagonally in half.
• Soak the dried fruit in warm water for a few minutes, then drain. Scatter some of the fruit in the baking dish and cover with a layer of the bread, margarine side down.
• Sprinkle with the remaining fruit, then cover with the rest of the bread, margarine side up.
• Whisk together the milk, vanilla, eggs, sugar and soya cream. Strain a little more than half over the bread and leave to stand for 20 minutes.
• Heat the oven to 180°C (160° fan) 350°F gas 4.
• Pour the remaining milk mixture over the bread and sprinkle the top with demerara sugar.
• Place the dish in a roasting tin. Pour in enough hot water to come halfway up the sides of the baking dish and bake for 35-45 minutes until golden brown. Allow to stand for 10 minutes before serving, then sift over a little icing sugar.

OLD FASHIONED ENGLISH LAVENDER TEA SCONES

Steps:

• Pre-heat the oven to 220C/450F, then lightly flour a baking tray.
• Sift the flour with the baking powder & salt. Rub the butter with the flour until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Stir in the sugar.
• Make a deep well in the flour, pour in the liquid and mix to a soft doughy texture with your hands. Sprinkle on the lavender flowers and knead into the dough very lightly until it is just smooth. Roll out the dough on a lightly floured board & cut out scone rounds.
• Brush the scones with the beaten egg, and sprinkle a few lavender flowers on top if you wish.
• Bake in oven for 7 - 10 minutes or until well risen and brown. Leave to cool. Serve with butter, lavender honey or lavender-infused cream.