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The Baker’s Daughter by Louise Johncox – Review

Updated 7 May 2024 Published 25 March 2014 155 Comments

Peter's Weybridge, Peter Johncox, Frankie Johncox, Welsh Rarebit

The Baker’s Daughter by Louise Johncox – Review

I can’t tell you how excited I am about the recent release of The Baker’s Daughter – Timeless Recipes from Four Generations of Bakers by Louise Johncox (Macmillan). Why you may wonder? Well Louise’s dad Peter owned Peter’s tea shop in Weybridge where he baked bread, made all manner of cakes and savouries as well as creating a fine array of home-made chocolates oh and I nearly forgot his jams and marmalade. When Peter married Frankie (Louise’s mum) she became the familiar face of Peter’s serving all the customers. I spent my childhood and beyond either having tea in the team room or popping in for sweet and savoury bakes. If ever we had unexpected visitors that needed feeding, Peter’s was like an extension to our kitchen being just a short walk away. As a young child I would be treated to my favourite iced animal biscuit from the shop and as I got older I loved all the cream cakes (the strawberry tart in summer was sublime) and the Danish pastries. When we had lunch in the tea room it always had to be Welsh Rarebit with a tiny dish of English mustard as nowhere else made them as good!

Peter’s were in Weybridge from 1958 until 2000 when they closed due to Peter’s retirement. Peter worked 14 hour days, 6 days a week and only ever had 1 day off sick. During my whole time as a customer I never saw Peter once but just his hands through the serving hatch in the tea room. When Peter’s closed it was the end of an era and a very sad day for Weybridge. For years after we kept reminiscing about the loss of such a wonderful place and really missed our Welsh Rarebits in particular. Peter’s had played such a huge part in our lives whether it was for our everyday needs, our birthday cakes (I remember a netball one for my 15th vividly), my sister’s christianing cake or splendid chocolate eggs at easter time.

What I hadn’t realised was that Peter came from a long line of pastry chefs and both his parents and grandparents ran tea shops. In Louise’s quest to write a memoir of her time at Peter’s, so started a journey of the culinary variety, when she started learning how to bake from her now retired father and a physical journey to Poschiavo a village on the Swiss Italian border to trace her ancestors. Louise’s book really is a labour of love as she extracted recipes from Peter that had never written down put them into domestic quantities. No mean feat from a baker that just did things by instinct and never once timed anything in the oven but just knew when a loaf etc was ready!

It’s a fitting tribute that Albert Roux OBE, KFO has written the foreward to this book as he understands what it is to run a family business and all the hard work that goes with it. Without Louise’s book generations of recipes would have been lost and that would have been such a shame. Whether you knew Peter’s or not this book is full of fabulous recipes for everything from their famous gooey cream meringues, almond macaroons (a favourite of my mum’s), custard creams (one of dad’s favourites) to the wonderful Welsh Rarebit that we all missed so much! In addition there are some recipes from Frankie which include fudge, chutneys and jam.  The first recipe I baked from the book was Frankie’s Lemon Drizzle Cake which was totally gorgeous and intensely lemony!

Peter's Weybridge, Peter Johncox, Frankie Johncox, The Baker's Daughter by Louise Johncox

My 1st attempt at Frankie’s Lemon Drizzle Cake which nearly ended in disaster as I was so busy reminiscing I picked up the wrong flour so added baking powder at the last minute!

Who knew as a little girl, seeing Louise in the tea shop as we both grew up, that one day I would be reviewing her book and be able to re-create all the wonderful sweet and savoury bakes from my childhood? Most of you reading this will not have experienced Peter’s but you can capture a bygone era, a wonderful story and generations of wonderful recipes in this remarkable book. Each chapter shares a moment of time in Peter’s history with a mixture of funny and poignant memories which lead into each collection of recipes. Peter may not be with us any longer but his legacy will now live on through this wonderful tribute!

I give this book 5/5 for the stories and all the wonderful recipes you’ll want to make.

Louise will be doing a book signing at Weybridge Books on 26th April from 2pm.

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Comments

  1. Pennie Riley

    25/05/2014 at 11:58 pm

    I love banana loaf, one of my all time favourites

    Reply
  2. Natalie Crossan

    25/05/2014 at 11:17 pm

    Marble cake 🙂

    Reply
  3. Caroline Anne Bellamy

    25/05/2014 at 9:56 pm

    rock cakes made by my Nan – lovely memories!

    Reply
  4. mummy ms memories

    25/05/2014 at 8:35 pm

    they look so delicious… my mum used to bake a big breadpudding in a huge roasting tray… cheap and cheerful… even better when still warm!

    Reply
  5. mummy ms memories

    25/05/2014 at 8:33 pm

    They look so delicious…

    Reply
  6. Susan Carruthers

    25/05/2014 at 8:03 pm

    Butterfly Buns, my Mum always used to bake them.

    Reply
  7. Patricia Avery

    25/05/2014 at 4:21 pm

    Grandma’s rough cake, a sort of poor man’s Christmas cake but nowhere near as rich. She used to put in whatever was left in the cupboard so it never quite tasted the same twice but it was always delicious 🙂

    Reply
  8. aaron milne

    25/05/2014 at 3:40 pm

    Battenberg

    Reply
  9. denise cross

    25/05/2014 at 3:15 pm

    just a simple Victoria Sponge cake.

    Reply
  10. aisha

    25/05/2014 at 1:10 pm

    chocolate fairy cakes with chocolate buttercream icing

    Reply
  11. taja mckenzie

    25/05/2014 at 12:02 pm

    coconut cake

    Reply
  12. Samantha Freeman

    25/05/2014 at 11:08 am

    Victoria Sponge, I remember mum baking every weekend and always made one of these whilst I eagerly awaited the bowl to clean!!

    Reply
  13. jannette roden

    25/05/2014 at 10:58 am

    Mine would have to be butterfly cakes filled with buttercream what my nan used to make x

    Reply
  14. Julia Morris

    25/05/2014 at 9:50 am

    My childhood cake memory takes me back to my nan’s bread pudding tray bake. She used to make it every weekend for when the family visit and we took huge slabs of it home with us. My boyfriend makes it now and it always takes me back to those days in nannies kitchen, waiting for my slice 🙂

    Reply
  15. Richard Eldred Hawes

    25/05/2014 at 9:34 am

    Songe with butter cream filling

    Reply
  16. Jen Boucher

    25/05/2014 at 2:05 am

    Apple pandowdy. It was the first cake my Nan taught me to make -and the only one i still remember the recipe for!

    Reply
  17. Natalie Henderson

    24/05/2014 at 11:56 pm

    Layer cake with fresh whipped cream and tinned mandarin segments. I still love it!! 🙂

    Reply
  18. Lucy Irving

    24/05/2014 at 11:48 pm

    apple pie

    Reply
  19. Louise Johnson

    24/05/2014 at 9:55 pm

    Marble cake – My grandma made this amazing cake which was made up of chocolate, vanilla and strawberry sponge.

    Reply
  20. Janine Atkin

    24/05/2014 at 9:31 pm

    vanilla biscuits (not cake i know). my mum used to make them at night for us to eat the next day

    Reply
  21. Gillian Holmes

    24/05/2014 at 8:31 pm

    Victoria Sponge sandwich

    Reply
  22. Sheri Darby

    24/05/2014 at 7:07 pm

    My grandmother’s chocolate mousse cake

    Reply
  23. Sheila Reeves

    24/05/2014 at 6:39 pm

    Seed cake, although I wasn’t keen on it at the time it was a family staple, both grandmothers made it and my Mum too

    Reply
  24. Kristy Brown

    24/05/2014 at 5:13 pm

    Lemon cake – my great aunts was the bees knees

    Reply
  25. Lyndsey Beckford

    24/05/2014 at 5:10 pm

    Clootie Dumpling – my gran made the best dumpling in the world! 🙂

    Reply
  26. Mary Baldwin

    24/05/2014 at 4:53 pm

    Simnel cake – everyone always had Christmas cake, but at Easter hardly anyone had simnel cake and I just love the special flavour still.

    Reply
  27. Ali Thorpe

    24/05/2014 at 1:40 pm

    My mum’s aunt, who is Polish, makes a flourless cake with ground almonds and it would always be the centrepiece on special occasions. I still adore that cake now!309

    Reply
  28. jodie harvey

    24/05/2014 at 11:36 am

    christmas cake, always used to help mum make ours 🙂

    Reply
  29. Kirsteen Mackay

    24/05/2014 at 7:12 am

    Chocolate birthday cake

    Reply
  30. Jo-Anne holton

    23/05/2014 at 9:09 pm

    Chocolate cake made by my nanna!!!

    Reply
  31. Jennifer Rhymer

    23/05/2014 at 7:47 pm

    Fairy cakes as I used to make them & take them into the school for their summer fayre

    Reply
  32. Holly edmundson

    23/05/2014 at 6:59 pm

    Has to be the chocolate caterpillar cat 🙂 I use to get one for every birthday haha 🙂 xx

    Reply
  33. Diana

    23/05/2014 at 12:54 pm

    Victoria Sponge 🙂

    Reply
  34. Sarah Hurrell

    23/05/2014 at 12:13 pm

    Victoria sponge. Every weeked my nan would cook one for the following week.

    Reply
  35. Kelly Hooper

    23/05/2014 at 12:08 pm

    Butterfly cakes, my eldest sister used to make them with me, I now make them with my daughter 🙂

    Reply
  36. Hazel Christopher

    22/05/2014 at 11:02 pm

    Battenberg, my nans favourite x

    Reply
  37. Michelle Kemp

    22/05/2014 at 10:46 pm

    Date & walnut loaf

    Reply
  38. Hannah Ingham

    22/05/2014 at 5:55 pm

    Victoria Sandwich Cake! 🙂

    Reply
  39. Sarah Rees

    22/05/2014 at 4:11 pm

    Batternburg – My great grandmother used to serve it with squash

    Reply
  40. Saran Benjamin

    22/05/2014 at 11:27 am

    My grans Bake Stones yum

    Reply
  41. lindsey stuart

    21/05/2014 at 4:11 pm

    My Grannies lovely homemade carrot cake it was lovely!!! sooooo yummy

    Reply
  42. Amy J

    20/05/2014 at 11:24 pm

    Lemon cake that my great grandma used to make 🙂

    Reply
  43. Lani Nash

    19/05/2014 at 10:52 pm

    Lemon Drizzle cake

    Reply
  44. Hannah

    19/05/2014 at 10:43 pm

    Butterfly cakes a lady up the road used to make us some and we would be sent to collect them

    Reply
  45. Joanne Welsh

    19/05/2014 at 2:12 am

    Chocolate gateaux because we used to have it for dessert every sunday.

    Reply
  46. Marie

    18/05/2014 at 8:01 pm

    Maple walnut! Because it reminds me of growing up in Canada. The Maple Leaf Forever!

    Reply
  47. laura jones

    18/05/2014 at 7:38 pm

    pineapple upside down cake it was the first cake i was taught to cook

    Reply
  48. Christine Watson

    18/05/2014 at 7:00 pm

    I love sponge cake, jammy middle and icing on top

    Reply
  49. Ellen Nixon

    18/05/2014 at 4:43 pm

    Victoria sponge cake – a birthday treat – yummy

    Reply
  50. Alice Megan

    16/05/2014 at 1:28 pm

    Chocolate caterpillar cakes! Reminds me of childhood birthdays

    Reply
  51. Keith H

    11/05/2014 at 9:03 pm

    Angel Cake

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  52. Miss. Lucinda Fountain

    11/05/2014 at 10:54 am

    A cake that brings back wonderful memories of childhood, would have to be a traditional victoria sponge cake – with lots of jam and even more cream!

    It is something that i used to bake with my mother all the time, using my grandmother’s simple family recipie.

    Thanks so much for the fab book giveaway! x

    Reply
  53. Tamsin Dean

    10/05/2014 at 8:07 pm

    always victora sponge as my grandma made them fantastic

    Reply
  54. Gillyann

    10/05/2014 at 12:50 pm

    Got to be Crispy Chocolate Cornflake cakes

    Reply
  55. Debra E

    09/05/2014 at 10:56 pm

    Teisen Lap – A sour milk Welsh fruit cake.

    Reply
  56. June Etherington

    09/05/2014 at 6:12 pm

    Gypsy Tart. Used to have it at school many years ago. I still make my own today & I’m now retired.

    Reply
  57. caroline henaghan

    09/05/2014 at 5:53 pm

    My Grandma’s cherry cake – so moist and beautifully sweet! It was my grandma who taught me to bake, but I have never yet been able to match her cherry cake x

    Reply
  58. lisa

    09/05/2014 at 3:18 pm

    my mums almond sponge cake lushhhh !!

    Reply
  59. Sandra M

    08/05/2014 at 1:17 pm

    My Mums chocolate sponge with fresh cream – I still make it now!

    Reply
  60. kim neville

    08/05/2014 at 7:08 am

    my mum was always making us victoria sponge

    Reply
  61. Tina Lawton

    07/05/2014 at 11:35 pm

    Eccles cakes with my mum and gran on Saturday shopping trips 🙂

    Reply
  62. Bethan Palmer

    07/05/2014 at 5:06 pm

    Welsh Cakes, my Nan used to make them!

    Reply
  63. Kathryn

    05/05/2014 at 6:55 pm

    Millionaire’s shortbread as it was a birthday treat 🙂

    Reply
  64. Gem

    04/05/2014 at 12:25 pm

    Victoria sponge.

    Reply
  65. Andrea

    03/05/2014 at 3:42 pm

    Fairy cakes

    Reply
  66. clair downham

    03/05/2014 at 10:40 am

    maderia cake

    Reply
  67. ESME MCCRUBB

    30/04/2014 at 2:34 pm

    JAM SPONGE

    Reply
  68. Rachael Barratt

    29/04/2014 at 4:38 pm

    Victoria sponge- without fail we had one of these every birthday!

    Reply
  69. dawn Wilkinson

    27/04/2014 at 6:35 pm

    Chocolate Butterfly Buns with mint flavoured green butter icing

    Reply
  70. Janine Phillips

    26/04/2014 at 2:50 pm

    Dark Ginger cake with white icing on top

    Reply
  71. Sheryl Keene

    26/04/2014 at 9:49 am

    Angel food cake

    Reply
  72. Janice Papworth

    26/04/2014 at 9:45 am

    butterfly cakes and jam tarts with buttercream on top

    Reply
  73. Cathy James

    26/04/2014 at 7:25 am

    victoria sponge

    Reply
  74. pam Lawrence

    25/04/2014 at 4:34 pm

    Battenburg – it was always my favourite, and it reminds me of going with my grandmother to see my “courtesy” aunty Gwen singing in what nan always called “cat’s choir”! They always had a tea spread out in the middle of the concert, and I always chose the plate with the battenburg on!!

    Reply
  75. emma falvi

    24/04/2014 at 4:31 pm

    fairy cakes

    Reply
  76. Lorna Craig

    24/04/2014 at 1:21 am

    Cream horns, Mum was a great baker and I remember coming home from school to the smell of baking but these were my favourite 🙂

    Reply
  77. Kirsty Fox

    22/04/2014 at 10:44 pm

    Welsh Cakes, our neighbour used to make them

    Reply
  78. milli

    22/04/2014 at 9:41 pm

    Jam buns

    Reply
  79. Karen Barrett

    22/04/2014 at 8:12 pm

    Victoria sponge

    Reply
  80. Katherine L

    18/04/2014 at 10:51 pm

    A lemon poppy seed cake

    Reply
  81. Lorna MacFadyen

    16/04/2014 at 11:46 pm

    we used to make amazing peanut cookies along with an array of different things with my granny.. She was a brilliant baker but was Coealic so always watched for our reactions to her cakes. I wish she lived a little longer, nowadays there is such an amazing gluten free range out there she would of been able to indulge!

    Reply
  82. J Causer

    14/04/2014 at 7:28 pm

    Victoria sponge

    Reply
  83. Kay panayi

    12/04/2014 at 9:12 pm

    Chocolate cake

    Reply
  84. Helen Humphries

    12/04/2014 at 5:24 pm

    Actually the cheap stuff like jam donuts and iced buns.

    Reply
  85. Nicola

    12/04/2014 at 10:31 am

    My Gran’ s pancakes 🙂

    Reply
  86. Vikki

    11/04/2014 at 10:07 am

    My mum used to make fairy cakes with the little wings. I’ve tried to do them myself but they’re never quite as good.

    Reply
    • Camilla

      11/04/2014 at 2:24 pm

      They’re Butterfly Cakes, I loved them as a kid too:-)

      Reply
  87. Solange

    10/04/2014 at 3:28 am

    Victoria Sponge

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  88. NYCSavage

    09/04/2014 at 4:05 pm

    My wife would love this book!

    Reply
    • Camilla

      09/04/2014 at 10:22 pm

      It’s so good, showed it to a friend the other night who wanted it too!

      Reply
  89. Jo Glasspool

    08/04/2014 at 11:15 pm

    jam sponge x

    Reply
  90. Gill Thom

    05/04/2014 at 9:18 pm

    rock cakes

    Reply
  91. Annie Costa

    04/04/2014 at 7:23 pm

    fluffy cheesecake with raspberry or cherry topping

    Reply
  92. Judith Allen

    02/04/2014 at 10:30 pm

    Cherry and walnut cake – I don’t remember, but it gets told still, how our young labrador ate most of one from the cooling rack. Still a favourite cake, but I couldn’t quite eat that much.

    Reply
  93. Linda spevick

    29/03/2014 at 12:38 pm

    Fairy cakes

    Reply
  94. Hannah ONeill

    29/03/2014 at 8:42 am

    Victoria Sandwich! Yummy

    Reply
  95. Emma Baker

    29/03/2014 at 2:02 am

    Angel Cake!

    Reply
  96. Rebecca Beesley

    28/03/2014 at 11:55 pm

    iced buns

    Reply
  97. Winnie

    28/03/2014 at 7:11 pm

    fairy cakes 😀

    Reply
  98. Winnie

    28/03/2014 at 7:10 pm

    fairy cakes in school charity sell 😀

    Reply
  99. foz

    28/03/2014 at 1:19 pm

    Victoria sponge

    Reply
  100. Maya Russell

    28/03/2014 at 10:48 am

    Sachertorte, which my mum makes as birthday cakes!
    Always so rich and with apricot jam in the middle.Yum.

    Reply
  101. Deon van Schalkwyk

    28/03/2014 at 9:27 am

    Angel Cake – My mum always used to make it for us for Christmas dinner!

    Reply
  102. sandra hastings

    27/03/2014 at 9:17 pm

    Victoria Sponge with Strawberry Jam.

    Reply
  103. claire woods

    27/03/2014 at 9:09 pm

    Battenberg cake – my nanny used to put it on the table for tea on a Sunday night.

    Reply
  104. Laura Pritchard

    27/03/2014 at 8:41 pm

    My mum’s Ginger cake

    Reply
  105. Ursula Hunt

    27/03/2014 at 4:34 pm

    Angel cake, it was my mum’s speciality, it reminds me of picnics in the very hot summer of 1975 ( I think thats the year but it was in the seventies)

    Reply
  106. Carol Massey

    27/03/2014 at 4:06 pm

    Manchester tart (school version)

    Reply
  107. Liane

    27/03/2014 at 12:56 pm

    Victoria sponge with homemade jam

    Reply
  108. REBECCA TOWNSEND

    27/03/2014 at 12:24 pm

    Coffee and walnut cake

    Reply
  109. teresa maxwell

    27/03/2014 at 11:32 am

    My mum used to make marble cake and put pink and white marshmallows on it when it was warm out of the oven. Then she would top with melted chocolate. It was a super cake and I cannot recreate it as well as she made it.

    Reply
  110. jenny morgan

    27/03/2014 at 10:37 am

    lemon drizzle mums fav

    Reply
  111. Tammy Tudor

    27/03/2014 at 9:57 am

    coffee cake 🙂

    Reply
  112. Suzanne

    27/03/2014 at 9:12 am

    Coffee and walnut brings back happy memories and was regularly baked at home.

    Reply
  113. Karen Whittaker

    27/03/2014 at 8:25 am

    Coconut sponge as my grandma used to bake it when we went to stay

    Reply
  114. jodie yorke

    26/03/2014 at 11:26 pm

    currant cake.

    Reply
  115. Kat Lucas

    26/03/2014 at 10:27 pm

    German chocolate cake as my Grandmother used to make it often for Sunday dinners

    Reply
  116. Mark Witherington

    26/03/2014 at 9:52 pm

    Fruit cake

    Reply
  117. Marycarol

    26/03/2014 at 9:11 pm

    Battenberg cake was a real treat when I was a child – used to love all the colours and marzipan!

    Reply
  118. Patricia Whittaker

    26/03/2014 at 9:07 pm

    We always had Angel Cake on Sundays

    Reply
  119. Jo Jones

    26/03/2014 at 7:48 pm

    Battenburg

    Reply
  120. Julie's Family Kitchen

    26/03/2014 at 6:28 pm

    A Victoria Sandwich cake filled with jam.

    Reply
  121. kirsty l

    26/03/2014 at 6:11 pm

    not so much of a cake but bakewell tarts remind me of my nans kitchen 🙂

    Reply
  122. Sandra Clarke

    26/03/2014 at 6:06 pm

    A Victoria Sponge was the norm or butterfly cakes.

    Reply
  123. Val Hartley

    26/03/2014 at 6:03 pm

    Date & walnut

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  124. sylvia

    26/03/2014 at 5:49 pm

    Has to be chocolate Fudge cake for me xxxooo

    Reply
  125. melanie stirling

    26/03/2014 at 5:31 pm

    Pineapple upsidedown cake,we had that loads at school.

    Reply
  126. Lynne D

    26/03/2014 at 5:16 pm

    Rock cakes and Victoria sponge because mom used to make these on a Sunday.

    Reply
  127. Richard Randall

    26/03/2014 at 5:16 pm

    Sounds like a great book.

    Reply
  128. Jan Wroblewski

    26/03/2014 at 4:33 pm

    A honey and walnut/almond cake

    Reply
  129. chris hunt

    26/03/2014 at 3:34 pm

    Swiss roll because I learnt hot to make it and then made it every week until we were all sick of it.

    Reply
  130. Jane Willis

    26/03/2014 at 2:13 pm

    Chocolate eclairs – a passion I shared with my grandmother and we would secretly feast on them whenever she looked after me for the day.

    Reply
  131. CHRISTINE ANDREWS

    26/03/2014 at 10:19 am

    Which cake brings back memories of your childhood?
    Parkin – it’s a Lancashire cake, dark and sticky made with treacle, which my mum used to bake

    Reply
  132. Avril Luke

    25/03/2014 at 11:02 pm

    Oo it sounds like a fabulous place! Would love to win a copy and make some treats with my teen 🙂 Pre-teens I grew up in Scotland so my treats from the bakery were either a Scottish Pineapple Cake or some Empire Biscuits – yum! Not managed to get hold of them for years and years.

    Reply
  133. pete cleasby

    25/03/2014 at 10:41 pm

    swiss rolls

    Reply
  134. Choclette

    25/03/2014 at 10:05 pm

    What a fabulous sounding book. This is ringing a lot of bells, I’m wondering if I heard her talk on the radio.

    Rock cakes mean childhood to me. They were my mother’s bake of choice – she made fabulous puddings but not that much cake.

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    • Camilla

      26/03/2014 at 12:08 pm

      Peter’s did rock cakes too;-) You probably did hear her on the radio as the book has only just been released:-)

      Reply
  135. Corina

    25/03/2014 at 10:05 pm

    a pineapple upside down cake.

    Reply
  136. lois levy

    25/03/2014 at 9:07 pm

    my sister and I helped mum bake every Sunday afternoon and we always made lots of different sponge cakes -plain, chocolate, coconut, currant, lemon etc. but best of all the cake tins had designs at the bottom of each section so the cakes all had stars and hearts and other shapes on the bottom of each cake so no need for fancy paper cases.

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  137. Angela Cole

    25/03/2014 at 7:41 pm

    My great auntie’s recipe for victoria sponge with homemade jam. Yummy.

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  138. charleneflash

    25/03/2014 at 7:40 pm

    Classic Victoria Sponge

    Reply
  139. Gina M

    25/03/2014 at 6:45 pm

    My old neighbours scones. My brother and I used to keep her company and play in her garden and she’d always bake these delicious scones.

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  140. KARA CAMERON

    25/03/2014 at 6:01 pm

    Has to be cheesecake for me!!

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  141. Bron

    25/03/2014 at 5:12 pm

    Oh, coffee walnut! I used to love the icing (made with Camp coffee of course) and leave the walnut halves!

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  142. Maxine

    25/03/2014 at 5:02 pm

    my mum’s chocolate swiss rolls – me and my sister used to fight over licking the bowl!

    Reply
  143. June Etherington

    25/03/2014 at 4:41 pm

    Lemon cake with fresh picked strawberries from the garden. Mmmmm delicious.

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  144. sue hoey

    25/03/2014 at 4:13 pm

    fab. recipes look really scrummy.x

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  145. Susan Lloyd

    25/03/2014 at 4:06 pm

    My Nan’s Victoria sponge cake. X

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  146. Roger

    25/03/2014 at 3:22 pm

    Dundee cake

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  147. iain maciver

    25/03/2014 at 2:52 pm

    pastry apple pie , one of my grans greatest

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  148. Tracey Peach

    25/03/2014 at 2:44 pm

    The Lovely Birthdays cakes My Mum used to make us, a victoria sandwich sponge with coloured icing sugar with jelly tot’s & sprinkles added to decorate with candles

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  149. Daniela James

    25/03/2014 at 1:44 pm

    Looks lovely!

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  150. Irene Wright

    25/03/2014 at 1:38 pm

    Christmas cake – when I was first married (many years ago now) I wasn’t much of a baker. However, I was determined to master the art of making Christmas cakes. We lived on a farm at the time so the pigs & dogs got to eat my failures but eventually I managed to cook 12 really good Christmas cakes one year. Mum & the rest of the family were delighted with their Christmas presents.

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  151. Susie Wilkinson

    25/03/2014 at 11:48 am

    Weetabix Cake, my Mum made them all the time!

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  152. Jean Bolsover

    25/03/2014 at 11:40 am

    Rock cakes! My nan & I used to bake them, but mine never look or taste like they did then!

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