I was impressed at how well last week’s biscuits tasted after several days in an airtight tin, so I thought the recipe deserved another outing with a bit of tweaking. First I reduced the amount of sugar by 50g, using 150g where the first recipe required 200g. Glacé cherries made the already sweet biscuits even […]

Hilary Mantel wastes no words over her descriptions of textiles, clothes, jewellery or furnishings in her two Cromwell books. When – rarely – she describes these things, they have a point, either revealing character or state of mind. I’d go further and say that for me the cardinal’s red clothing never makes an unimportant appearance […]