Food & drink by The Ramsbury Raven; We’re all about making our own recipes, where our food and drink comes from, how it’s made and quality home cooking that anyone can enjoy.
Josie’s 21st century Yorkshire Pudding Recipe (So easy, a 7 year old can make them) Yorkshire Pudding Ingredients 70g plain flour 2 eggs 100ml milk goose fat for baking (or substituting with sunflower oil is fine) Heat oven to 230C/fan 210C/gas 8. Grease 8 holes of a muffin tin with warmed goose fat. Mix the …
Life is too short for homemade Hot Cross Buns Seduced by glorious magazine recipes for hot cross buns? Tempted to make your own? Are you looking for an easy hot cross bun recipe? Forget it. Seriously. Back away from the mixing bowl, go out your front door, down to the shops and just buy some. …
Local Butchers Sumbler Brothers Win Awards Family butchers Sumblers made mincemeat of the opposition by taking home the trophy for Wiltshire Life 2018 Independent Food/Drink Producer of the year, one of Wiltshire Life’s most sought after awards. A great achievement for the team at Sumblers who supply locally sourced game, beef, lamb, free range pork …
Tea and Geography A view of worldly attitudes towards tea It’s spring in my English country garden in Ramsbury and I have in full bud a Camellia sinensis (I once went to the trouble of picking and drying my own tea from this little evergreen bush). Home grown tea is quite the novelty but it …
How to Make Snow Ice cream You’ve sledged in it, made it into snowballs, sculpted it into snowmen – now for one last rush of creativity before the snow all melts and we have to go back to work on Monday. Get a bowl of fresh, clean snow – no bits of grass or leaves, …
Is it right to promote corporate brands such as Fairtrade in schools, churches and even as ‘Fairtrade towns’? It’s Fairtrade Fortnight and son’s school has set him homework of designing a poster promoting Fairtrade. Sounds innocent enough but I’m concerned by how Fairtrade is being depicted as unambiguously good and I’d expect better of the …
On the second day of Christmas my true love made for me… A Simply Super Turkey Pie! Clear the table and save the leftovers for this amazingly simple pie recipe! Forget Jamie, and ditch the BBC – here is how to make a fast, crowd-pleasing pie. Time to make: 30 mins Cooking time: 40 mins Ingredients: …
How to make Mince Pies like a Marlborough Mummy There are so many parts of a traditional Christmas that are distinctly “marmite-y” (and we don’t just mean Twiglets). If you love things like Christmas pudding and bread sauce, happy days. But if you hate them (and, let’s face it, there’s no middle ground) you may …
Stir Up Sunday sorted with our yummy Christmas Pudding Recipe The last Sunday before Advent is Stir Up Sunday. The “Stir Up” part comes from the Book of Common Prayer – “Stir up, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people” – but it is also the traditional day for concocting your Christmas pudding. Recipes …
We check out the latest patisserie sensation In exciting foodie news, the UK’s first official Cronut bakery has now opened. Dangerously, it’s in Pimlico so (just) within commuting distance of Ramsbury. If you’re not yet a fan of the Cronut, prepare to be amazed. This flaky, hybridised croissant-doughnut pastry was invented (like so many good things) in New …
