12 November 2024

Steenbergs Gift Guide 2024

Spice, Season, Savour with the Steenbergs Gift Guide. Everything you need for the foodies in your life, from stocking fillers to that little bit extra.

30 November 2022

Festive mulling spices – not just for wine!

Here at Steenbergs we are well known for our sustainable, ethically sourced spices that are hand blended in our eco factory in North Yorkshire. At this time of year, attention often turns to the warm, fragrant spices such as cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg...

07 December 2020

All I want for Christmas is an E-cookbook!

Over the years we have had the pleasure of working with many different chefs, cooks and recipe creators and have been delighted to see their creations using our spices, herbs and home baking ingredients. In this digital age many of us now access reci...

08 December 2017

Christmas recipes part 3 - Festive Tipples

With all the baking and cooking going on over the holiday season, there also needs to be time to relax with a lovely glass of wine, preferably mulled! Steenbergs hand-blends a variety of mulling spices loose in jars, in handy sachets, tied in muslin...

01 December 2017

Christmas Recipes Part 2 - Festive Baking

In the run up to Christmas, it’s always handy to have a delicious cake at the ready for unexpected visitors, an easy recipe for whipping up a tasty brunch on a leisurely morning or just an indulgent treat to enjoy after a bracing winter’s walk.

24 November 2017

Christmas recipes Part 1 - Get Set for Christmas

With Christmas only a few weeks away, it’s time to think about all of those delicious festive treats that can be made in advance, helping to take the stress out of Christmas. Steenbergs stocks all of the spices, extracts, flavoured sugars and home ba...

05 March 2012

Having A Crack At Making Pan Pepato

One of my favourite Christmassy things is panforte and I, also, love Nurnberger lebkuchen.  It hails from Siena which is probably my favourite city in Italy.  There really is something special about sitting out in the Piazza del Campo, looking across...

04 January 2012

A Little Bit About Myrrh

I wrote some time back about gold and frankincense, so to complete the trio, here are some notes on myrrh.

23 December 2011

Give Some Time And Make Some Christmas Sweets

In this festive period, we have been asked out to various families for drinks, or the kids out to parties.  And the question always is what to give people in a period of giving.  So yesterday, the kids and I spent a happy day making sweets, much as w...

17 December 2011

Recipe For Nurnberger Christmas Cookies - German Lebkuchen

Following on from the spekulatius blog, we have been having fun trying to make German lebkuchen cookies.

11 December 2011

Recipe For Speculaas Biscuits - A Dutch Christmas Treat

One of my favourite Christmas cookies are spekulatius biscuits, or speculaas as they are called in the Netherlands.  I remember we always used to get a special parcel from Lebkuchen Schmidt in Nürmberg from my Granny.  In amongst all the beautiful ti...

16 January 2011

Review Of December 2010 Food Blogs (Part 2)

At Mahanandi, Indira shared some innovative menu ideas for the Christmas Season, or holiday season as it is called in America - see Menu 1 and Menu 2.  Maison Cupcake was cupcake decorating in a Masterclass in Islington's The Make Lounge with Mich Tu...

11 December 2010

Countdown To Christmas

It is that time of the year again when I start panicking that I have not got everything ready for Christmas.  What have you forgotten?  No presents bought that is for sure, but the thought and desire is there.  Soon, I feel myself say, there's still...

21 November 2010

Recipe For German Stollen

My mother is German, our family coming originally from Eastern Germany; in fact, my maternal great great grandfather's family were from even further east in modern Poland, being a headmaster for a school in Gdansk. 

14 November 2010

Traditional Mincemeat Recipe

I am winning with Christmas food preparations this year, which seems unbelievable considering how little time I seem to have to do anything at the moment;. I am running about one week behind last year.  However, as a man who cooks, I do actually find...

07 February 2010

Follow the frankincense trail

08 January 2010

Recipes - Oranges And Lemons For Really Great Homemade Biscuits

While snowed in in the cold countryside of Northumberland, we enjoyed some warming chai as well as delicious mulled wine using our organic Fairtrade mulling wine spices.  I also concocted a couple of citrus based biscuits, with one of them coming fro...

06 January 2010

The Three Wise Men Give Gold, Frankincense And Myrrh

We went to the pantomine at the Theatre Royal in Newcastle last weekend, and as usual it was fantastic with good songs, amazing costumes and some great contraptions - a flying pegasus that pulled Cinderella's coach was a highlight.  Then there were t...