Category: Recipes & Food

Easy Jar Sterilization

Easy Jar Sterilization It is important to sterilise any jars used for preserves to remove any bacteria, yeasts or fungi to protect the food you put into the jar. Dirty or jars that have not been sterilized properly will infect the food inside and it will spoil very quickly and need to be thrown away. …

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10 Ways to Use Lemon Balm

10 Ways to Use Lemon Balm Lemon balm is a perennial herb from the mint family. The leaves, which have a mild lemon aroma, are used to make medicine. Lemon balm is used alone or as part of various multi-herb combination products. Lemon balm can be used fresh and dried in food, steeped to make …

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How to Make Sugar-Free Banana Bread

How to Make Sugar-Free Banana Bread The trick to getting away with using less sugar is to use extremely ripe bananas whose starch has been largely been converted to sugar, ie. the kind of bananas the fruit flies love! They have also used chocolate chips in this recipe but you can just miss them out …

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24 Awesome Mason Jar Food Gifts

24 Awesome Mason Jar Food Gifts Mason jars make great crafts and what could be better than combining them with food? Food in jar gifts have been around for a long time and they always seem to impress the person receiving the gift. Not only can you customize the mason jars with delicious food but …

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Traditional English Trifle

Traditional English Trifle A trifle is a layered dessert that contains custard, sherry soaked cake, fruit, jam and whipped cream. There are many reasons that the trifle has been adapted, simply out of necessity. English custard can be purchased in a box Called Bird’s Custard Powder in the same fashion as American pudding. But it can be difficult …

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