Mixed Spice Sugar
This is just a quick make for the pantry shelf, a nice mixed spice sugar that you can actually use in your baking or as s topping for mince pies, or apple and pecan muffins or in rock cakes wherever you would use a touch of spice. I think this would be lovely in home made teacakes or hot cross buns too. If you make this now it should be scented well in advance. The recipe comes from a magazine cutting this time by Jamie Oliver. Ingredients: 3 cloves 2inch piece of cinnamon stick broken into rough chunks 3 tablespoons of sugar Pinch of grated nutmeg Strip of Orange Zest ( I used dried) Pinch of ground ginger Method: Place the cloves, the cinnamon and a tablespoon of the sugar into a bowl of a pestle and mortar and grind it all together as finely as you can. Add the nutmeg, orange zest, ginger and the rest of the sugar and mix everything together. Sieve the sugar to remove any large pieces of spice. Use where the fancy takes you (might ev...