Posts tagged 'Christmas'
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...
Read more07 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...
Read more08 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...
Read more01 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.
Read more24 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...
Read more05 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...
Read more23 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...
Read more11 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...
Read more16 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...
Read more14 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...
Read more08 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...
Read more06 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...
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