Tea is served

It’s Afternoon Tea Week from the 11th until the 17th August. What better excuse to whip up something delicious at home...

Flat whites, flavourful rubs, buzzy cocktails… our appetite for coffee is evolving into a full-blown national obsession. Could it be about to replace tea as the UK’s favourite beverage? Let’s find out

Best served warm and spread liberally with butter, these come together in a jiffy. MAKES 10 PREP 10 MINS COOK 10 MINS ✱ 250g self-raising flour ✱ 1tsp baking powder ✱ 1½tsp mustard powder ✱ ¼tsp cayen

There is a story that in the 17th century, Oliver Cromwell banned Eccles cakes on the grounds that they were too indulgent: all of that melting pastry and expensive dried fruit, sugar and spice deemed

S imple cakes, perfect served with a cuppa

Put the British into baking with these nostalgic classics, 2 0 2 5 guaranteed to bring everyone to the table