I’ve reviewed one of my favourite vegetarian eateries a number of times in a variety of places, but I’ve never mentioned it on my  blog, so I want to put that right today. I stumbled upon The Goji Café in York, last year, after being in the city to review another restaurant; still feeling incredibly hungry after I’d [...]

Yorkshire Pepper Cake.  This cake, served at Christmas and New Year, was almost exclusive to the Ryedale area, with other parts of Yorkshire having their own Yule Spice Cake recipes, which were often more like breads made with yeast. Children would go round the houses singing the rhyme, ‘A little bit of pepper cake A [...]

Frumenty, eaten in Yorkshire on both Christmas Day and New Year’s Day, is a thick, milky pudding, traditionally made with the husked wheat, or in some areas, barley. The wheat heads were soaked in water for a day, then poured into a Hessian sack and beaten against the floor to separate the hullins. The whole [...]