Calvados

Apple & Rhubarb Crumble

Apple & Rhubarb Crumble

As puddings go, you would be hard pressed to top a good Apple & Rhubarb Crumble, topped with lashings of double cream. If you don’t have the ingredients, or time, to make the full blown dessert, why not just give this cocktail a try. All the taste with none of the washing up, result! Ingredients: […]

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coffee, hot cocktails

Cafe Normandie

The origins of Cafe Normandie and it’s variants are hotly debated, 19th century Vienna, Germany, Denmark and France all make a claim to cream topped coffee liqueurs. Wikipedia has a very good article on the history of Irish Coffee. Several places claim to have developed the modern recipe in the 1950s. One version is attributed

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honey, cider, whisky

Hot Apple Toddy

Imagine the scene, it’s the end of Autumn, the harvest is in and the nights are drawing closer. Warm yourself with an intoxicating glass of Hot Apple Toddy. Did you know that the worldwide production of apples in 2018 was 86 million tonnes, with China accounting for nearly half of the total? The UK’s National Fruit Collection includes a

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hot chocolate

Hot Chocolate Variations

We can’t be drinking spirits all night long… think of the little children!  We’ve been experimenting with Hot Chocolate Recipes and our two top taste testers have been testing, evaluating, marking and adjusting our ideas so here are Emma and Darcy’s Top Ten Hot Chocolate recipes. Naturally, we’re going super simple here. Ingredients: 1tsp of

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