With Shrove Tuesday just around the corner I wanted to bring you a recipe that takes pancakes to another level. The Pancake Pie or Banniet Tort, with its origins in the early eighteenth century, is flavoured with dried fruit, orange juice and brandy and made from pancakes encased in a light puff pastry case. You can find the recipe on our blog
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To assist you in responsible & sustainable foraging, The Woodland Trust has developed these foraging guidelines, as well as a month by month guide as to what to forage when and a few straightforward recipes to try with your finds.
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LYME DISEASE
FREE Online Seminar
As people who spend a lot of time outdoors and therefore potentially amongst ticks, you may be interested in this online seminar from Lyme Disease UK who are going to discuss herbal and antibiotic approaches to treating Lyme Disease.
It's at 1pm on Friday the 19th February and registation is Free.
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BBC 2 - Thursday at 9pm
Chris goes foraging at Swinton Park
On Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby, Chris Bax takes Monica Galetti foraging during her visit with Giles Coren to Swinton Park Hotel in the Yorkshire Dales. By taking a look at the heart of the grand house and its countryside charm, as well as a wider estate that has opened up for guests to enjoy, Monica and Giles learn about the challenges of making history pay in the modern world.
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WILDING - ISABELLA TREE
What am I reading?
In Wilding , Isabella Tree tells the story of the 'Knepp experiment', a pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex, using free-roaming grazing animals to create new habitats for wildlife. Part gripping memoir, part fascinating account of the ecology of our countryside, Wilding is, above all, an inspiring story of hope.
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TIME TO MAKE
Back to Basics Bread Course
This hands-on course led by baker Tom Baker takes bread back to its essential ingredients – flour, water, salt and yeast – and teaches you a great repertoire of beautiful breads based on these basic building blocks. During the course you will make rustic white loaves, wholemeal seeded rolls, sourdough bread, ciabatta, fougasse and pizza, which you’ll eat for your lunch. You’ll also make an enriched brioche dough for you to take home and bake the next day.
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GRAB A COFFEE
Editor's PODCAST Pick of the Month
Chris Bax talks to Mary Marshall from the Closet Conversations Podcast about meeting Rose, foraging, the woodland, developing Bax Botanics and those nights when only pizza and beer will do.
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EARTH FIRE SALT
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Primal needs gatherings
North Yorkshire
Find your wild soul
COMMUNITY - CONNECTION - CALM
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BAX BOTANICS - Alcohol Free Spirits
Adding health promoting ingredients to Bax Botanics can produce some of the most delicious drinks. With no sugar, sweeteners or alcohol in Bax the pure botanical distillation can have a positive effect anyway, but these extra ingredients give you a real boost.
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Shake all the ingredients well with lots of ice then tip into a highball glass and serve with a straw.
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S E A B U C K D E - T O X
~ 50ml Bax Botanics Sea Buckthorn
~ 50ml Coconut Water (for Heart and Skin)
~ 5ml Organic Apple Cider Vinegar (for Digestion and Immunity)
~ 10ml Honey Water (for Fighting Infection)
~ Quarter tsp Finely Grated Fresh Ginger (for Digestion, Arthritis and Circulation)
~ A Good Pinch of Ground Turmeric (for Heart, Inflammation & Depression)
~ A Pinch of Crushed Sea Salt
~ A Dash of Peychauds Bitters (optional)
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