The Whistler asked Stuart and Marc from the Kitchen Table at the Seven Dials to share some recipes with our readers…
For this, the Christmas edition of The Whistler, we give you a few recipes that can be given as little Christmas gifts or something that will liven up your cheese board or the inevitable left over cold cuts.
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The Whistler asked Stuart and Marc from the Kitchen Table at the Seven Dials to share some recipes with us…
After receiving customer requests for gluten free cakes we began to look for inspiration from the shop’s cookbooks. It was amongst them in a book on the food of Spain and Portugal that Marc discovered ‘Torta di Santiago’, a flour-free cake from the famous town of pilgrimage. It is thought to date back hundreds of years, being first recorded in Santiago as far back as 1577 under the name, ‘Torta Real’. In 1924 a local baker, Jose Mora Soto, added the stencilled shape of the Santiago cross using icing sugar to distinguish it from other cakes and this may be how it established its name. The cake is made from almonds, something brought to Spain by the Moors over a 1000 years ago. Many recipes use whole almonds but here we use ground ones.
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Dear Whistler
I read the last edition with interest about the neighbours dismayed at the work being started at Buckingham Lodge. We live right opposite so our view will be blocked and our privacy invaded. What I would like to know is how they got permission to do this when our dear Green Council wants all windows in residential properties looking the same, otherwise it spoils the ‘conservation area’. Well, maybe they should look at the state of some of the properties in the area surrounding West Hill to see the state of some of the windows, walls etc and different painted front doors. Continue reading Letters
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