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Category: Dorset Food & Drink

Decadent and delicious – millionaire’s shortbread

I was recently at a wedding, and my eight-year-old niece (a budding baker) was scrolling through my cake photos. She stopped on the one...

Primrose and berries – but not as you thought you knew them

A favourite spring flower is a surprise stop this month, and expert Carl Mintern has the real reason for those pucker-up sour blackberries right...

Fat hen, elderflower fritters and the most prized of finds

Why did we stop eating the Fat Hen, wonders expert Carl Mintern, who is celebrating the season for finding the jewel in the mushroom-foraging...

Love Local Trust Local Awards are open now – have you entered?

Love Local, Trust Local Awards founder Barabara Cossins takes us back to the start of her journey, and reminds us all that local producers...

Meet your local: Round Chimneys Farm

This month Rachael Rowe visited the Rich family at their new farm shop and cafe at Round Chimneys, their historic farm at Glanville Wootton “A...

Perfect summer baking – berry and vanilla cake

We are right in the heart of our British summer, with Wimbledon season in full swing, and sparkling wine and strawberries as far as...

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‘Suppleness, Stride Length, Muscle Tone & Strength.’

The benefits of a water treadmill for horses aren’t limited simply to rehabilitation from injury. In recent years, the equestrian industry is increasingly turning to...

Digital ID cards? Let’s see the detail

With proposals resurfacing, MP Simon Hoare asks if it’s security theatre, a serious tool for immigration control – or another failed IT promise? As I...