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This is an attempt to document my efforts to grow and eat locally around Melbourne, Derbyshire. My family own a nine acre smallholding on which we grow fruit and vegetables and keep bees, and chickens, but that won't feed us alone, so the idea is to get to know our local produce and to see how easy/hard it is to follow a diet that is local to within 30 miles. The fun part is also trying some new (easy) recipes that use home-grown and local produce. Feel free to comment, send in recipes, and share your experiences of buying and eating locally.

Tuesday 17 July 2012

Breton shortcake

This is not a shortcake at all, but a really rich cake to make using the egg yolks left over from making meringues.  It's delicious.


225g Self-Raising flour
110g golden castor sugar
110g icing sugar sifted
225g lightly salted butter diced/grated
5 medium egg yolks
3/4tsp vanilla essence
Jam 125g



Oven 190 degrees.


Place flour sugars and butter in food processor and whizz until breadcrumbs.

Blend egg yolks and vanilla and add and whizz to soft sticky dough


Put half of dough in cake tin (lined).

Add jam

Add other half of dough.
 

Cook 40 - 45 mins



Chocolate version:

Additional 2 tbsp self-raising flour

Add 125g dark chocolate (melted) with egg.
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