Creme Anglaise – or Custard to you and me

Custard! What Englishman doesn’t love custard? Not that horror that we had at school with a nasty thick skin on it, but the gorgeous yellow vanilla rich sauce that has to accompany a Crumble or Sticky Toffee Pudding .  It is so English that the French even acknowledge the fact by naming it after us  – a…

Rhubarb and Custard Cake – a match made in heaven

It has been many weeks since I last baked, never mind wrote about it, but with good reason. May and June are the busiest gardening months when everything bursts into life at full throttle and the garden is at its most gorgeous but most labour intensive phase. Plants that 3 weeks ago were leaves popping…