Iced Snowflake & Star Biscuits

18 November 202118 November 2021 Categories: Christmas · Friends & Family · Kitchen & Cooks · UncategorisedTags: iced biscuits · iced cookie · kitchen linens · kitchen textiles · Kitchenware · kitchenwares · Recipe · Recipes · winter rabbitLeave a comment

Transform your kitchen into a Winter Wonderland. Bake a flurry of snowflake biscuits for a tasty Christmas gift. They’re great to make and decorate with kids, too. Ingredients 200g unsalted butter , softened 200g golden caster sugar 1 large egg ½ tsp vanilla extract 400g plain flour , plus extra 500g pack ready-to-roll fondant icing honey , for sticking you will also need snowflake and star cookie cutters Method Heat your oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6 and line a baking sheet with baking parchment. Put the butter in a bowl and beat it with electric beaters until soft and creamy. Beat in the sugar, then the egg and vanilla, and…

Perfect Pavlovas in 3 tasty ways

24 April 201926 April 2019 Categories: Kitchen & CooksTags: aprons · Baking · FRUIT · Inspiration · kitchen essentials · kitchen textiles · Kitchenware · London · Napkins · New Design · oven gloves · PINEAPPLE · Recipes · Screen print · tea towels · thornback & peel · thornback and peel · TROPICALLeave a comment

  With their delicate, crispy outside and marshmallowy centre, pavlovas are our go-to party pudding. Once you have mastered the technique of making a good meringue, you can have fun experimenting with different toppings. In this blog post we share some meringue recipe tips, and then make three of our favourite toppings for you to try.   INGREDIENTS (serves 6)  MERINGUES 175g caster sugar 3 large egg whites  Preheat the oven to 140ºC / Fan 120ºC / gas mark 1. Crack the egg whites into a large, clean bowl and whisk until stiff. Two points to note here: firstly you…

Poached Pears With Chocolate Sauce & Salted Caramel Nuts

6 October 20179 October 2017 Categories: History & Making · Kitchen & CooksTags: cooking · kitchen textiles · Kitchenware · pear and ginger recipe · pear cake recipe · pear print · pear recipe · RecipeLeave a comment

Enjoy the best that autumn has to offer with this deliciously simple recipe for spiced poached pears topped with salted caramel nuts and chocolate sauce. Pear-fection Ralph Waldo Emerson once said that ‘there are only 10 minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat’. There’s no doubt that certain varieties seem to go from rock hard to mush in a matter of moments, so for this blog I decided to cook them. Variety Show Poaching pears softens their flesh to perfection and enhances their delicate flavour. But you do need to choose a suitable pear to cook with. Firmer varieties like Bosc, Anjou and…

Design Inspiration: Pear

28 September 2017 Categories: History & Making · Interiors & DesignsTags: aprons · hand printed · home style · Interiors · Kitchenware · Napkins · new deisgn · oven gloves · pear · Placemats · Screen print · Screen printed · tableware · tea towelsLeave a comment

Introducing our newest print for autumn Embrace the changing of the seasons with our latest print, a quintessentially English design that recreates the beauty of espaliered Pear trees.   Designing the print This darkly shaded two-colour illustration is something of a departure from our usual colour palette. We experimented with mixing the inks to create deeper tones of mustard yellow and golden brown which lends the design a slightly Victorian, gothic feel. Serving suggestion! The print works well as an accent colour in the dining room and kitchen and would complement the current trend for rich teals, intense blues, anthracite greys and dark wood interiors. (For…

Design Inspiration: Cherry

24 July 201710 August 2017 Categories: History & Making · Interiors & DesignsTags: aprons · cherries · cherry · cherry print · Coasters · Design · design inspiration · handprinted · Inspiration · kitchen essentials · kitchen textiles · Kitchenware · New Design · Placemats · Screen printed · screenprinted · tableware · tea towelsLeave a comment

This quintessential summer fruit has always been a favourite.    There is something so deliciously tempting about their plump, juicy redness you can’t help but eat the whole bowl. Cherries are an iconic image, and have long been used in everything from fashion and beauty to pop art. Hockney, Warhol and Lichtenstein have all fallen for these sweet, summer treats. So designing the new Cherry print for our range of homewares and accessories has been a particularly delicious project. We spent a long time mixing inks to get the exact shade of luscious red for the cherries and a lighter pink for the fill behind the leaves. We’ve designed this nostalgic…

Spring Vegetable Tartlets Recipe

3 May 20173 May 2017 Categories: Kitchen & CooksTags: aprons · diningware · Fish Supper · Kitchenware · Napkins · oven gloves · Placemats · Recipe · spring · spring entertaining · spring recipe · spring table · spring vegetable tartlets · tartlet recipeLeave a comment

A Step-by-Step Recipe for Spring Vegetable Tartlets   With the days lengthening and Spring finally here, we’re looking forward to long, relaxed lunches with family and friends. Last month we shared our top tips for creating a beautiful Spring table setting. In this post, we’re bringing you the perfect recipe to complement your Spring table: easy-to-make Spring Vegetable Tartlets. Topped with vibrant green asparagus, sweet popping peas and peppery roquette they are perfect for relaxed weekend entertaining! INGREDIENTS (makes 4 individual tartlets): for the pastry cases….. 250g Shortcrust pastry Knob of butter (for greasing cases) Flour (for rolling out pastry) for the filling…. 3 tablespoons of crème fraîche 3…

Stir Up Sunday

17 November 201618 November 2016 Categories: Kitchen & CooksTags: Baking · Christmas · Kitchenware · mincemeat · Recipes · stir up sundayLeave a comment

As a child, Stir Up Sunday was a fixture in our family’s annual calendar. It heralded the start of Christmas preparations, and meant an afternoon sifting through bowls of raisins to remove all the stalks while a heady mix of spices wafted through the kitchen. Stir Up Sunday is an Anglican term referring to the last Sunday before Advent. It has been a tradition since Victorian times for families to get together and stir the Christmas pudding, before it is cooked and then put away ready for Christmas day. For my family, it was my Mum’s famous Christmas cake made…

All Creatures Great & Small

2 November 20163 November 2016 Categories: Interiors & DesignsTags: beatrix potter · Delia · Design · english country garden · garden · Green · Inspiration · Juliet · Kitchenware · Rabbit · Rabbit & CabbageLeave a comment

Rabbit & Cabbage was one of the first prints we designed.  We launched it on a deckchair in 2006.  It has remained one of our all-time best-sellers.  Over the years we have tweaked the design a little, but the deckchair remains true to the original. Inspired by tales of Peter Rabbit and the Flopsy Bunnies running amok in Mr McGregor’s garden, the design is filled with nostalgic references to our childhoods. The chocolatey brown and vivid green of the vegetable patch, the lazy buzzing of insects on a summer’s afternoon, and the secret delights of the English country garden.     Like all…

Beetroot Bourguignon with Puy Lentils

24 October 201625 October 2016 Categories: Kitchen & CooksTags: Beetroot · Bourguignon · Healthy · Inspiration · Kitchenware · Penni · Pheasant and oak · Recipes · Stew · VegetarianLeave a comment

With the onset of autumn and cold nights approaching, this to me only means it is time to comfort eat! But trying to stay healthy doing it is sometimes hard. Fortunately I absolutely love vegetables, but making them the star of every meal is sometimes quite a tricky task even for me and I am a vegetarian! However a couple of years ago I stumbled upon an amazing food blog written by David and Luise called Green Kitchen Stories  Not only do their recipes look mouth wateringly delicious in every picture but they are also super healthy too. The star of this…

Patisserie Makes Perfect!

19 October 20161 February 2017 Categories: Kitchen & CooksTags: apron · Baking · Cabbage · cakes · kitchen essentials · Kitchenware · ovengloves · patisserie · Rabbit · Rabbit & Cabbage · Recipes · tea towelsLeave a comment

It’s Patisserie Week on the Great British Bake Off, so what better way to celebrate than with our favourite patisserie baker Angela, of foodie blog Patisserie Makes Perfect. We first came across Angela on social media – she’s a big fan of Thornback & Peel, but also turned out to have a rather gorgeous blog of her own. Patisserie Makes Perfect is one woman’s journey to perfect the art of patisserie, viennoiserie, cakes, biscuits and all the crème pat and buttercream you could eat. Full of delicious images and tempting recipes, we were immediately hooked! Prepare to indulge…. T&P: Hi…