Chocolate Frogs are little enchanted frog-shaped candies sold in the wizarding world, produced by Mr. and Mrs. Flume’s (candy company?). Each is packaged with a removable card featuring a famous witch or wizard for trading and collecting. The frogs are said to be made of seventy…
Treacle tart is an English dessert made with light treacle—golden syrup. It is best served warm and traditionally with a dollop of clotted cream. I talk more about Golden Syrup and where to find it in my post about Treacle Fudge. Treacle…
Treacle is a type of sugar syrup extracted during the refining process. It can refer to Golden Syrup (light treacle) or a dark treacle (closer to molasses). It is used in baking and even as a condiment, like drizzling over…
I’m sure you all probably know that biscuits are basically cookies outside the US— Though they are usually crispier in texture, like shortbread or gingersnaps. I can assure you Professor McGonagall isn’t offering Harry Potter a bready biscuit to go…
I don’t believe there is anything more quintessentially Harry Potter than Pumpkin Pasties. It may surprise some of you that I have been making vegetarian cornish pasties for ages, long before I picked up The Sorcerer’s Stone, you’ll see a…
Rock Cakes are a British treat made popular during World War II as a recipe that went along with rationing. They are a cross between a cookie, scone, and fruit cake—usually containing little or no egg, less sugar, and dried sweet…
Spotted Dick is a difficult dish for Americans to understand. All jokes aside, Spotted Dick is an English steamed pudding. More like a hot, moist pound cake than American pudding. When Americans talk about pudding, we think of those little…
I may be a Disneyland girl through and through, but I have to say I’ve been horribly tempted and torn by all the images of Diagon Alley at the Wizard World of Harry Potter in Orlando Florida! Apparently, Hollywood will…
Occasionally, I’ll use tomato paste as an egg replacer in savory dishes. It’s a great binder for burgers and (obviously) meatloaves. Though, recently this tomato soup recipe has been making a serious comeback. Some say the original is a midcentury…
The beginnings of upside-down cakes are a little older than our retro time frame. Inverted cakes date back hundred of years. In the Americas, they were called skillet cakes, cooked over a fire, and featured prunes, apples, or berries. The…