Much as I don’t want to to admit it, my mum Alison is getting older.  She is in fabulous shape for an 82 year old, but going down a gear as each year passes.  The proof is in her kitchen, and in the gradual slowing of festive production. I am not sure whether this year she has even made a tin of shortbread, or her … Continue reading nostalgic baking: candied peel and walnuts