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Easy Baguettes

Stewed Pears.com — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:51:09 +0000

For someone who had never made bread before, who thought it too difficult, this easy baguettes recipe was a LIFE CHANGER!! It was recommended to me over on Bluesky as being one of the easiest bread-making recipes out there. I...

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Donna Hay’s Blueberry Yoghurt Loaf

Stewed Pears.com — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 02:14:07 +0000

This is a simply scrumptious cake, and there is nothing to add to Donna Hay’s original blueberry yoghurt loaf recipe except … .. the blueberries can sink, as you can see here. This is real life baking. A remedy for...

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Apple Pie with Shortcrust Pastry Sheets

Stewed Pears.com — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 06:18:07 +0000

I’ve referred before to my belief that frozen puff pastry is the lazy cook’s best friend. Well, frozen shortcrust pastry has just joined the BFF party 🥂 . Hunting around for a simple and quick “apple pie with shortcrust pastry...

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Two-Step Passionfruit Slice

Stewed Pears.com — Fri, 09 May 2025 07:00:07 +0000

Who doesn’t love passionfruit? Sweet, tarty – the idea of a little surprise when you cut it open. It is the Kinder Surprise of the natural world. And, you can use either fresh or tinned passionfruit pulp for this two-step...

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Apple and Sultana (Pantry) Cake

Stewed Pears.com — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 01:28:40 +0000

I’m calling this apple and sultana cake a “pantry cake” because it’s excellent for those days when you want to bake, but don’t want to shop. Surely we all have a couple of apples lying around? Brown sugar? Maybe some...

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Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

Stewed Pears.com — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 03:22:51 +0000

Don’t expect a big, bouncy sponge. The pineapple upside down is quite a flat cake. But what you can expect is a beautifully moist cake with a heavenly syrup. I wrote about the history of the pineapple here, and how...

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Raspberry Brownie Tart

Stewed Pears.com — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 01:19:27 +0000

I tend to prefer fruit-based desserts to chocolate. But this raspberry brownie tart is one I make an exception for. The contrast of tart raspberry and rich dark chocolate works exceptionally well with the soft brownie texture. Here is the...

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Teeny Chocolate Chip Cookies

Stewed Pears.com — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 01:51:36 +0000

These bite-sized chocolate chip cookies come under the same heading as my coconut raspberry jam slice. In other words, they’re exactly the kind of treat you might find being looked at longingly by cats through a window, or enjoyed by...

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Coconut Raspberry Jam Slice

Stewed Pears.com — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 01:53:41 +0000

This coconut raspberry jam slice is the sort of baking I associate with warm kitchens, secret gardens, and Beatrix Potter hedgehogs with aprons tied around their waists, and mice at tea. Images in the Public Domain The recipe comes from...

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Banana Bread, Baby

Stewed Pears.com — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 05:18:43 +0000

I sat down to write about banana bread, trying to think of all things banana … and had a vivid sensory memory of how much I loved a particular banana ice-cream as a kid! The creamy, creamy taste, the heady...

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