#mixed spice

[morethansalad]

Old Fashioned Sweet Barley Pudding (Vegan)

Sweet barley pudding or barley porridge is simply an adaptation of the medieval frumenty and has been enjoyed in Scotland for hundreds of years.

[corvidconventicle]

Your seasonal spice shopping list is

allspice, anise, black pepper, cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, coriander seed, ginger, mace, nutmeg, and white pepper.

get the dried and ground stuff for shelf life and time saving.

tbsp = table spoon, tsp = teaspoon. A tablespoon is roughly 15 grams and a teaspoon is about 5.7 grams.

british mixed spice: 1 tbsp cinnamon, 2 tsp allspice, 2 tsp nutmeg, 1 tsp cloves, 1 tsp ginger, 1 tsp coriander, .75 tsp mace

pumpkin spice blend: 3 tbsp cinnamon, 2 tsp ginger, 2 tsp nutmeg, 1.5 tsp allspice, 1.5 tsp cloves

chai spice: 4 tsp cinnamon, 3 tsp ginger, 2 tsp cardamom, 2tsp anise, 2 tsp allspice, 2 tsp cloves, a pinch of black pepper

gingerbread spice: 3 tbsp ginger, 2 tbsp cinnamon, 1.5 tsp allspice, 1.5 tsp cloves, 1 tsp anise, .75 tsp nutmeg, pinch of cardamom, pinch of white pepper

apple pie spice: 2 tbsp cinnamon, 1 tbsp nutmeg, 1.5 tsp allspice, 1.5 tsp cardamom

This is just a general base, you can and should adjust the ratios to fit your preference. Make a small batch, taste test, adjust ratio as needed and then you can make a bigger batch to get you through the months when the flavours are "unavailable."

If you're the type that feels like you need the pumpkin to be in the pumpkin spice you may actually want to stock up on some cans of pumpkin puree in coming months. Since the spice is just supposed to be what you put on pumpkin it doesn't usually include it, but Starbucks does have pumpkin in their drinks so if that's your goal you may want to procure some.

[askwhatsforlunch]

Apple and Nut Parcels

These Apple and Nut Parcels, filled with deliciously Autumnal flavours, make a beautifully seasonal dessert to end your Sunday Lunch. Have a good one, friends!

Ingredients (serves 3):

5 medium Ribston Pippin apples, rinsed

1 teaspoon Mixed Spice

1 1/2 tablespoon unsalted butter

1 heaped tablespoon good Chestnut Honey

1/4 cup pecans

1/4 cup hazelnuts

6 brik pastry circle (paper thin Tunisian pastry discs resembling filo)

6 tablespoons good Chestnut Honey

Peel, core and dice Ribston Pippin apples, and place apple dices into a medium bowl. Sprinkle with Mixed Spice, tossing well to coat; set aside.

In a small saucepan, melt butter over a low flame. Once melted, remove from the heat, and stir in Chestnut Honey. Set aside.

In a small frying pan over a high flame, toast pecans and hazelnuts until just browned and fragrant. Remove from the heat and allow to cool, before chopping the nuts roughly.

Preheat oven to 180°C/°F.

Line a baking tray with baking paper. Set aside.

Lay a brik pastry circle onto your work surface. Brush generously all over with Honey butter. Lay a second brik circle on top, pressing gently.

Spoon a cup of the spiced apple dices in the centre of the pastry disc. Sprinkle with chopped pecans and walnuts, drizzle genenrously with 2 tablespoons Chestnut Honey, and wrap the pastry to form a parcel. Place it onto prepared baking tray, seam and edges down.

Repeat with remaining brik pastry circles, spiced apple dices, chopped nuts and Honey, saving a few of the chopped nuts, until you have three beautiful parcels.

Brush them with a little of the Honey butter, and place baking tray in the middle of the hot oven. Bake, at 180°C/360°F, 20 to 25 minutes, until a nice golden brown colour.

Remove from the oven, and brush parcels with remaining Honey butter.

Serve Apple and Nut Parcels hot, sprinkled with chopped pecans and hazelnuts.

[clove-pinks]

Christmas Pudding 1.0

The pudding has been steaming for a few hours now. My wife and I took turns stirring it East to West (the journey of the Three Wise Men) while making a wish. ("I think we probably wished for the same thing," she said after).

I am using a recipe from The Daring Gourmet blog, which carefully describes each step (with pictures), and also has nuts optional, which was a must for my wife. I found that most Christmas Pudding recipes called for nuts. The link is every ad-ridden, long-winded recipe site cliché, be forewarned, but serviceable.

With the slight chaos of my life I didn't purchase any candied peel in time for Stir-up Sunday. The store didn't have it, and I didn't have time to make it. Sorry I Americanized the pudding with a substitution of sweetened dried cranberries. We don't make candied peel here, we have cranberry bogs.

Another learning experience: it takes a lot less toasted fresh bread to make two cups of crumbs than I imagined. I made the crumbs by pulsing the toast in a food processor, as the recipe instructed, and it worked wonders. I chopped up toast with a knife for the 1915 Eggs in Tomatoes and while that sufficed, it wasn't really crumbs. So help me, I am scared of the food processor and don't use it enough.

I also made the "mixed spice" (linked in the Daring Gourmet recipe), which the writers swear is some kind of very traditional and authentic British spice mix.

I really have no idea if this is an authentic British thing or not. (It's not in Captain Marryat's novels, that's for sure). The earliest reference I could find is in a very interesting 1855 book called Food and its Adulterations, that feels ahead of its time. My real Day Job is in food safety, and this book is quite similar to current guides for adulterated foods! Including the scientific investigation of samples with a microscope.

The 1855 guide to authentic mixed spice states that it "rarely" contains nutmeg or mace—two ingredients in the modern recipe I followed, along with coriander.

My new pudding mould is 2 litres (which I thought was a standard size), but it seems huge?? It just barely fits in the massive pot I use for lobscouse.

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Simple Tea Bread: aka Bara Brith or Barmbrack

Tea bread is a very British type of simple fat-free fruit cake. This recipe is easy to make and very tasty, especially spread with butter.

Tea bread is a very British type of simple fat-free fruit cake. It’s not as sweet as most fruit bakes, but it is more of a loaf cake than a bread as it doesn’t contain yeast. Dried fruit are soaked and plumped up in black tea. This recipe is super easy to make and very tasty, especially when spread with butter. When I have lots of bits and pieces of dried fruit taking up valuable space in the…

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[fullcravings]

Easy Caramel Apple Dump Cake Recipe

[plomegranate]

i love palestinian and arab culture so much.

my grandma wearing thobes around the house and making us tamriyeh. my cousins wedding when we all wore thobes and keffiyehs and took photos downtown and we danced with someone playing the guitar on the street and this lady stopping us to tell us we all looked so beautiful. walking the graduation stage in a thobe. the girl who liked to guess arab peoples ethnicities telling me "you're wearing tatreez... do you want me to write 'palestinian' on your forehead?" the keffiyeh my brother keeps on the drivers seat of his car.

my dad sending me off to my last semester of college with 2 pomegranates and a jar of palestinian olive oil. my cousins wife coming up with new ways to make zaatar and cheese pastries. me and my grandma sitting on the floor and making waraq 3neb- my job was to separate the leaves so she could roll them easier. my mom sending me and my brother to school with eid cookies for my teachers and tasking us with delivering some to the neighbors. my aunt glaring at me and piling more food on my plate and then asking if i was still hungry (i wasnt). my mom always telling me to invite my friends and cousins over for dinner and asking me what they like to eat. my family getting my dad knafeh instead of cake for his birthday. the man who told me i made the "best fetteh in the western hemisphere".

the man in the shawarma shop who gave me my fries for free and baklava i didnt order because we spoke about being palestinian while he took my order. the person on tumblr who i bonded with because we are from the same palestinian city. the girl i met on campus who exclaimed "youre palestinian? me too!" because i was wearing my keffiyeh. the girl in my class that showed me the artwork about palestine her dad made and donated for fundraising. the couple in the grocery store who noticed my palestinian shirt and talked with me for 20 minutes and ended up being a family friend. the silly palestinian kids i tutored sighing in disappointment when i told them i was born in america because they were hoping that id have been born "somewhere cooler". my friends family who bought me dinner despite me being there by chance and having met me for the first time the day before.

the boys starting uncoordinated dabke lines in my high school's hallways. the songs about the longing and love for our land. the festivals and parties and gatherings where everything smells like shisha and oud. memories of waiting in the car for an hour as my parents talked at the doorway of their friends homes. my cousins and i showing up at each others homes with cake or fruit or games as if it was the first time we ever visited even though we always say "you dont have to".

kids stubbornly helping to clean and make tea after a meal while being told to go sit down because they are guests. the necklaces in the shape of our home countries. people hugging and laughing and acting as if theyve known each other for years because they come from the same city or know people with the same last name. the day i finally got to bully my friends into letting me pay the bill because i had a job and they were still students. my moms friend who calls us every time she's at the grocery store to see if we need something

palestinian people are so resilient and hardworking and charitable. they love their culture and their community and are so quick to share and welcome anyone in. everyday i am so thankful and proud to be part of such a warm and lovely culture

[dezimaton]

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[commonplaceish]

Or, as it's been known in the Isles since the 1820s, "mixed spice". You can get it from supermarket shelves year-round.

So apparently it is pumpkin spice latte season, and for the record, Starbucks is under no obligation to put pumpkin in the thing. The term ‘pumpkin spice’ refers to a mix of cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and cloves.

[sincerely-sofie]

It’s Narilamb fankid hours.

[morethansalad]

Vegan Apple & Feijoa Crumble with Macadamias

[bl0ssom-skies]

Im not sure what compelled me to do this, but I did it anyway

[askwhatsforlunch]

Lebkuchen

At this time of year, the house really comes alive with the homely smell of biscuits baking, the oven warming the kitchen, and the delightful scent filling all the rooms. And what a delightful scent Lebkuchen have!!! Spices mingling with chocolate; it could not be more festive and exactly the kind of delectably crumbly biscuit one fancies after choosing the tree, among a crowd of stout, stunning firs at the Christmas Tree Farm (another wonderful seasonal smell!!) Happy Saturday!

Ingredients (makes about 20, of different sizes):

200 grams/7 ounces pure runny honey (like a fragrant Mountain Honey we brought home from Auvergne)

4 tablespoons unsalted butter

6 plump cardamom pods

half a small star anise

1 1/3 cup plain flour

1 cup spelt flour

1 1/4 heaped teaspoon Mixed Spice

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

1 orange

120 grams/4 ounces good dark chocolate (at least 70% cocoa)

In a medium saucepan, combine honey and butter, cut into small chunks. Heat over a low flame until butter is melted, and well-mixed. Remove from the heat, and allow to cool. Set aside.

Crush cardamom pods, and empty the pods in a mortar. Grind the seeds thoroughly with the pestle. Spoon ground cardamom into a small cup; set aside.

Place star anise halve in the mortar, and thoroughly crush and grind with the pestle. Set aside.

In a large bowl, combine plain flour, spelt flour, ground cardamom and star anise, Mixed Spice, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda. Grate in the zest of half of the orange. Give a good stir, to mix.

Dig a well in the middle, and pour in cooled honey and butter mixture, stirring with a wooden spoon until a rather sticky dough forms. Place in the refrigerator, to cool, 1 hour.

Preheat oven to 180°C/355°F. Line two baking trays with baking paper. Set aside.

Once the dough has chilled and firmed up, roll it out, rather thick, onto a lightly floured surface. Using cookie cutters of different shapes (or sticking to the traditionally plain round ones), cut out the lebkuchen, and place onto prepared baking tray, spacing them a bit as the shall spread out a little.

Roll out scraps until you have used all the dough.

Place in the middle of the warm oven, and bake, at 180°C/355°F, 15 minutes until a nice golden brown colour.

Remove from the oven, and let the biscuits cool completely on wire racks.

In a medium bowl over simmering water, melt three-quarters of the dark chocolate, until smooth, shiny and silky. Remove from heat, and stir in remaining dark chocolate, roughly chopped, with a spatula until completely melted. Then, return over simmering water, until smooth and slack again, to temper. Remove from the heat.

Dip one side of the lebkuchen into the melted chocolate, gently shaking off excess chocolate, and return to the wire rack, to set.

Enjoy Lebkuchen with a cup of tea, coffee, Cardamom Hot Milk or for something more decadent, an Eggnog!

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Pink pony club plays rent free in his head