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New Cuatro Leche Cake Recipe

The great folks at the Trewithen Dairy have come out with a New Cuatro Leche Cake Recipe. 

What is a Cuatro Leche Cake? It means "four milks cake" and is a light, fluffy vanilla sponge soaked with whole milk, evaporated milk, condensed milk and cream.

Ingredients

4 Eggs, separated

200g Caster Sugar

1 tsp Vanilla Extract

200g Plain flour

1 tsp Baking Powder

100ml Trewithen Dairy Whole Milk

200ml Evaporated Milk

200g Trewithen Dairy Cornish Clotted Cream

200ml Sweetened Condensed Milk

300ml Double Cream

2 tbsp Ground Cinnamon

Method

Heat your oven to 180c. Lightly grease and line a 20cm square cake tin.

Whisk the egg whites until they are thickened, before slowly adding half of the caster sugar, one tablespoon at a time. Continue whisking until the mixture is stiff and glossy. 

In a separate large bowl, whisk the egg yolks, remaining sugar and vanilla until pale and fluffy. Add the flour, baking powder and milk to the egg yolks and gently fold together until thoroughly combined.

Using a large metal spoon, add a spoonful of egg whites to the yolk mixture. Combine thoroughly, before very gently folding the remaining egg whites through, one spoonful at a time, with the aim of retaining as many of those delightful bubbles as possible.

Pour the batter into the prepared tin and bake for 40 minutes, until an inserted skewer comes out clean. Allow to cool for 10 minutes in the tin.

Meanwhile, in a small bowl, combine the evaporated milk, Cornish clotted cream and condensed milk. 

Poke holes all over the cake, before pouring over half the milky cream mixture. When the majority of the mixture has absorbed into the sponge, pour over a little more. 

Any remaining sauce can be served on the side. Refrigerate overnight if you can, although it'll still be delicious even if you don't have time. 

To serve, whip the remaining cream until it just holds soft peaks. Spread over the top of the cake before finishing with a generous dusting of cinnamon. Serve with the sauce on the side to pour over.

We at That's Food and Drink think this would make a delicious Christmas season desert. Maybe use Brandy Cream as part of the ingredients?

https://www.trewithendairy.co.uk.

Bear & Bee Sweet Company

At the recent V Show at the Birmingham NEC I found lots of firms selling delicious chocolates. Good for me, but not good for my wife was is allergic to chocolates.

When I mentioned this to a stallholder who was selling some absolutely delicious vegan chocolate he said: "Why not pop round the corner to the Bear & Bee company? They'll be able to help you as they have a lot of very tasty sweets that aren't covered in chocolate."

I thanked him for his advice and made my way to the Bear & Bee stall and was faced with a fantastical and somewhat bewildering selection of sweets.

I chatted with the people on the stall and eventually chose a large mixed bag of their sweets and also bought a bag for the daughter of a friend who has recently been diagnosed as having a gluten intolerance.

My wife's verdict on the sweets later that day? "These are delicious! You really can't tell they are vegan or sugar free!"

You can order them online at https://www.bearandbeesweetcompany.com.

Shore the Scottish Seaweed Company Produce fantastic seaweed chips!

Shore Chips the Scottish Seaweed Company produce some of the best crisps that my wife and I have tried in a while.

I found them at the Just V Show and after tasting them, I decided that I just had to buy three 80g bags, one of each flavour.

There are Lightly Salted Seaweed Chips, Peking Duck Flavoured Seaweed Chips and Sweet Sriracha Seaweed Chips.

When I got them home and we opened them, my wife was please that, although they are 100% plant based that they are also definitely 100% on the taste front.

She pointed out that although vegan, they did have a taste of the sea about them. Obviously this was as a result of them having a good serving of genuine hand-picked and freshly harvested Scottish seaweed in the recipe. 

Apparently there is a proper handful of real seaweed (20g!) in each and every bag. And, of course, as they are harvested from the shoreline of Northern Scotland, this means the key ingredient requires absolutely zero fertilizer to make it grow. Plus there's the added incentive that they are naturally high in iodine, too! 

They are also high in fibre and have 120 calories per serve.

Seaweed is the forgotten superfood of the British Isles and it's good that Shore Chips is getting people to eat more seaweed.

Just visit them at https://shoreseaweed.com.

They can be purchased in Holland and Barrett for £1.00 for a 25g bag, plus Morrisons now stock them, too. You can also order them on Amazon, Sainsbury's, the Co-Op, etc.

Larger 80g bags are available, please check for availability. 

My wife and I think that these will make a tasty and healthy alternative for the crisp mountains that many families build up for Christmas, so please do stockpile them  well in advance of the big day!

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Le Beaujolais Est Arrivé!

Beaujolais Nouveau Day celebrates the release of France's most popular vin de primeur. A light and fruity red made from Gamay grapes which have been grown and harvested by around 400 small farmers in the Beaujolais region, it is bottled and sold within just 6-8 weeks of the grapes being picked. The date for Beaujolais Nouveau Day this year is 17th November. 

Beaujolais Nouveau is all about festival and fun, and Wickhams are delighted to be inviting consumers to join the celebration by offering two nouveau wines and an English nouveau. All are available to pre order now, for delivery by 17th November. The purchase of nouveau wine from Wickhams also gives customers a free place at an online event on the evening of Thursday 17th November to taste the fruits of the 2022 harvest together. 

Beaujolais Nouveau 2022, Domaine Bel Avenir

£13.33  Single Bottle £12.00 Any 6 Mix 

(if purchased as part of the Any 6 mix they are honouring the 2020 price which is just £12 per bottle.)

Beaujolais Nouveau 2022, Domaine de Mont Joly

£15.50  Single Bottle £13.95 Any 6 Mix

Sharpham New Release 2022

£14.00  Single Bottle £12.60 Any 6 Mix

Always a champion of English wine, Wickhams are also offering the fast and fun new release from Sandridge Barton, the home of Sharpham Wine.

Wickhams offers over 250 wines and spirits, including individual bottles as well as curated cases, encouraging customers to try new varieties, all at accessible price points.  By building close working relationships with winemakers they are able to reduce the length of the supply chain to give better quality at a lower price whilst also using 100 % recyclable packaging.  

Delivery is available to mainland UK from a centrally located Mansfield warehouse allowing the whole of the UK to be serviced with fast deliveries.  Orders over £40 are shipped free of charge. 

For more information about Wickhams' products and to keep up to date with their events, visit www.wickhamwine.co.uk.  You can also follow them on Facebook and Instagram @wickhamwine.

Time to lay some in for Christmas? we think so!

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