I have previously shared my versatile banana cake recipe and a banana & walnut loaf recipe. I always seem to have masses of bananas in my freezer now that I am successfully growing bananas at home and had always heard people talk about banana bread but I was never quite sure whether it was just banana loaf or something different - so I investigated ... There seems to be a lot of confusion about what the difference actually is between banana cake, banana loaf and banana bread. A … [Read more...]
‘The Queens’ Date & Walnut Cake Recipe
In an earlier post I talked about the fresh walnuts I had got from Alberton House. I still had some walnuts left to use and I remembered the deliciously light Date & Walnut Cake recipe that my friend Vicky had made for my birthday. I asked Vicky for the recipe and was delighted to discover that it was in an old hand-written recipe book and mysteriously titled "The Queens Recipe" (she had no idea why it was called this). After a bit of searching I discovered that there are various stories … [Read more...]
Walnut & Coffee Cake Recipe
I would love to be able to grow my own walnuts but the trees are just too big for an average suburban garden. Fortunately Alberton Historic House has a walnut tree in its grounds and sells bags of walnuts from its Verandah Store, so I can at least get locally grown walnuts. They provided several walnut recipes along with the bag of walnuts, one of which was this Walnut & Coffee Cake recipe - I just had to make it. Alberton House was built in 1863 and was originally a 2 storey farmhouse in … [Read more...]