Dundee Cake

A light and crumbly fruitcake, Dundee Cake originated in 19th century Scotland as a commercially mass-produced cake from marmalade company, Keiller’s. Read a wonderfully-detailed account of the history, plus recipe and photo of Dundee Cake here. It’s also typical to decorate the Dundee Cake with concentric circles of split almonds, as you can also see [...]

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Horlicks Ice Cream Strawberry Parfait

Here’s another YWCA recipe, indicated by the ‘Y.W.’ notation in the top right-hand corner.
Earlier on, I’d already blogged about the history of commercially-produced ice cream in Singapore since the 1920s, and posted grandma’s notes for ‘perfect vanilla ice cream‘, taken from McCall’s women’s magazine.
This idea for Horlicks ice cream seems really way ahead of its [...]

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Nice having tea

I just came across this lovely photograph of my grandmother having tea, probably taken in the early 1930s. The British habit of afternoon tea was common amongst anglicised Asians in colonial Singapore, who continued this practice through later decades, long after Singapore had broken away from colonial rule. Growing up with my grandparents in the [...]

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Cream Puffs (Choux Pastry)

I have been waiting to get to this recipe :). Cream puffs were one of grandmother’s favourite things to make as she found choux pastry very easy to produce. I don’t recall her ever making them for me, but she often recalled how as a teenager in the early 1930s, she learnt to make them [...]

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Bread Rolls

With commercial, sliced bread today full of questionable preservatives (especially calcium propionate, see for example, Fact Sheet on Bread Preservative (282 calcium propionate) and Bread Preservative Research), it’s always good to make your own bread at home if you can. Which is why I’ve been doing quite a bit of bread making recently – with [...]

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