For much of the holiday period, most of my mornings were spent in the same uncomfortable manner: shoulders curled in, head down, staring at a grill pan. The arc of my shoulders, I feel, was testament ...

Place all ingredients into large bowl and make well in centre. Put in 1 and three quarter pints warm water and mix well. (Mixture should be quite ''loose'' like pancake batter. This may thicken after ...

Glenn and Sue Fowler's one hundred year old oatcake business will soon have to close down. Its closure will mark the end of an age-old way of selling this traditional food An oatcake - to the people ...

If you were dining at the home of an aspiring Los Angeles hostess in 1930, you might have been served smoked salmon appetizers (strips of salmon rolled “around a midget sweet pickle in the form of a ...

The son of a Staffordshire oatcake maker is opening a new factory, capable of making 400,000 of them a week. Alex Povey, 25, said the site in Biddulph would create 11 new jobs and that he was "living ...

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A couple’s dream to open a seating area in their oatcake shop has come true. Claire and Adam ‘Cap’ Capper took over Mellors ...