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Whilst not strictly the time to make some Easter goodies, because of very welcome visitors I made some biscuits today. Instead of Simnel cake I made some Simnel/Easter biscuits.
I think that it is fairly specific to this area to use Oil of Cassia in cooking - for Easter biscuits, So I used that instead of mixed spice and currants, marzipan and whole almonds in the final mix.
I don't have the specific recipe as I made it up from a mish-mash of other recipes but they were very tasty.
Does anyone else have close family/relatives that live abroad - if that doesn't sound too odd. What I mean is that we have children and grandchildren that live in different parts of the world.
The internet has been very useful for keeping in touch so when they come to visit - which because of the idiotic covid restrictions etc. we are not completely unknown to them. We were fortunate recently to see our son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter. Whilst unfortunately the parents had to still do some work and one day were both away for the whole day it meant we had to look after our granddaughter which was lovely and because of the familiarity of seeing us online she didn't get upset and enjoyed her day. I wonder whether she would have been so relaxed had she not had that
