Category Archives: Recipes
Coffee Treats: Espresso Shortbread Cookies and Affogato
Here are a couple of articles with recipes – we thought you might find them useful as the weather has turned nicer and weekend is approaching (though in our opinion every day is the right day for coffee and coffee-related … Continue reading
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Cappuccino – In A Cake Form
We thought we’d add a cake recipe, to go with those iced drinks from our previous post. It’s sort of like a cheese cake as it needs to be chilled and has a biscuit base (so no baking required) – … Continue reading
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On Brewing Iced Coffee and Tea
Sure the weather’s not very summery at the moment, but we’re hoping that sunshine will return, sooner rather than later, and we’ll once more be dreaming of iced drinks. So here is a link to an interesting article on brewing … Continue reading
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A Recipe For The Weekend – Iced Chocolate (With Coffee, If You Wish)
Although we’re having April-showers-in-June sort of weather at the moment, one can always make use of a recipe like this, hoping it will tempt the summer back. It’s more to do with chocolate than coffee, though you can add coffee … Continue reading
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Coffee News, Iced Coffee Recipes and Interesting Bits
From BBC comes this article on The World Behind Your £3 Cup of Coffee. As the sunny, warm weather continues, this might be of interest to many of you. From The Guardian an article on iced coffee by Daniel Young … Continue reading
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Coffee in the News (Plus Another Recipe)
Three more interesting articles that appeared recently: Coffee Culture – about the increasing importance and popularity of single origin coffee, about switching from espresso-based drinks to brewed coffee, about great coffee in general. A Question of Taste – about assesing … Continue reading
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Coffee as an Ingredient
Always a welcome addition to our recipe folder: coffee recipes from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, published in The Guardian on Saturday. All sound wonderful – maybe something to try out during the week or next weekend? There’s something for everyone too: coffee … Continue reading
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Biscuit recipes
Coffee tasters and home baked biscuits that were part of our evening during the Teddington Lights Up/Christmas Late Night Shopping Events proved very popular - in fact, we ran out before the evening was even over. Many of you asked … Continue reading
