Happy Easter!
Easter is one of those times of the year when people like to
bake. It can be very relaxing and you know which ingredients have gone into your
creations.
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Finding trustworthy recipes which work and have UK measurements
If you want to learn how to make some Easter cakes and bakes, how do
you know which recipes to trust?
Instead of just searching using Google which will bring up
all sorts of websites, try these tips:
- Search for a famous chef’s website and then search for a recipe (e.g. Nigella, Jamie Oliver)
- Most supermarket websites have recipe databases.
- Well-known magazines often have recipe sections where the recipes have been tried and tested (e.g. BBC Good Food, Good Housekeeping).
- Brands of ingredients (eg Stork, Allinsons, Whitworths, Philadelphia – other brands available) often provide a collection of recipes to promote their products.
- Some food items have associations or boards which support those who work within the industry but also help promote the products to the public. E.g www.seafish.org supports the fishing industry but also has its own recipe site for fish http://www.seafish.org/eating-seafood/fish-is-the-dish
- Instead of searching online, why not use a book. We have a collection of recipe books to support our Hospitality students in Library+ which anyone in College can borrow.
Limiting Google results to UK sites only
One problem with recipe sites is that if you find an
American site, the measurements are in cups which is not useful for those of us in
the UK. How do you make sure when you search for a recipe in Google, you only get UK results?
You need to put in your search site:.uk and this will restrict the search to UK sites.
So, in Google you might write “Easter biscuits” recipes site:.uk
(I have put speech marks round Easter biscuits to keep this
as a phrase). Have a try!
To finish, here is a video recipe for Hot Cross Buns from
Mary Berry (which because it is hers, we know we can trust it).
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