Glogg
The plan is to try out as many festive toddies as we can in the run up to Christmas so that you, dear reader(s), will have a selection of Yuletide tipples to choose from come the big day. With only 12...
View ArticleWintery Pimms
We had some Pimms in the house, we wanted to make a new hot boozy drink, a recipe was found that indicated a potentially minimal expenditure on further ingredients in order to fulfill our warm Pimms...
View ArticleGrogg
Despite being grammatically only one letter away from Glogg, this is actually a toddy far removed from its near namesake. The alcoholic element can be supplied by either Rum, Brandy or as in this case...
View ArticleEgg Nog
Thus far we have glogged and grogged… time to get nogging. Preparation time: 1 minute Cooking time: 3 minutes Skill level: few things in life are easier than nogging an egg Ingredients 2 (fresh and...
View ArticleLemon barley water
You have probably read in the financial pages that Yumblog Inc. has once again upped sticks and relocated its corporate HQ a few miles up (or is it down … or along?) the road to Hebden Bridge (pop...
View ArticleChilled beetroot consommé
Middle-class dilemma #23: Lovely things beetroot, but what to do with them when they turn up for a fourth time in your Abel & Cole veg box? In the past we have roasted them, pickled them, rosti’d...
View ArticleSloe gin
As most foraged food is either unpalatable, bitter, or tastes ‘a bit like spinach’, our advice to you is to smother it with refined sugar and alcohol and transform it into a cheeky little apéritif...
View ArticleHawthorn Liqueur
Here is a recipe for toothsome* yuletide tipple which if you start now will be ready to sip on 28th December. Technically still Christmas. WARNING: This posting has not been edited by my educated...
View ArticleMulled cider
Obviously you don’t really need to be told how to mull cider as like us you’ll just explore the deeper regions of your spice cupboard and gather together whatever seems to conjure up memories of...
View ArticleCalpis
As a rule I tend to avoid drinks with the suffix pis, but this sounded so intriguing I had to give it a try. Preparation time: 5 minutes Cooking time: 15 minutes Makes: 6-8 long drinks Skill level:...
View ArticleCrappuccino
Hello again dear reader(s). Sorry about the woeful lack of posts recently but we have been busy upping sticks yet again and moving back down south to Brighton by the sea. Normal yumblogging will be...
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