As weekends go in our family, there is always a LOT of cooking and baking to be done. Ever since I was born, and for a gazillion years before that, my Nan and Grandad have cooked up a treat for our large family.

On any given Saturday you will find my Nan & Grand, Betty and Eric to you, pottering away in the kitchen mixing and stirring, slicing and dicing, and dishing up yummy treats for anyone of the family who happens to pop by.

Saturday is Lentil Soup day. Homemade Lentil Soup day. This is often accompanied with those warm part-baked fresh bread rolls and lashings of butter, slathered on with the cream old-fashioned butter knives that my mum picked up on a trip to the Lake District. Either those rolls or ‘Baby Bread’ aka Warburtons Milk Roll. Mmm!

My Nan and Grandad are also AMAZING pudding makers! Over the years, we’ve all been spoilt rotten every Sunday with a selection of around 3 or 4 puddings to choose from following our BIG FAT Sunday Roast! The usual homemade suspects include: Steamed Syrup Sponge Pudding and Birds Custard, Steamed Chocolate Sponge Pudding and Dairy Milk Chocolate Creamy Custard, Apple Crumble, Strawberry Flan and cream, Scones, Coconut cake and of course… Profiteroles!

There are usually 10-14 of us squeezed around their trusty Ercol circular dining table, with a few spare IKEA JEFF chairs being brought out for good measure. Some of us often end up sitting in the front room with dinner on our laps. We don’t care where we eat it, it still tastes great! Dinner is a raucous affair but one that we all cherish dearly.

Profiteroles… Mmm! Choux Pastry.

Makes over 20!

Ingredients:

• 75g Plain Flour
• Pinch of Salt
• 150ml of water
• 50g butter
• 2 standard eggs, well beaten

Preheat oven to 180C / Gas Mark 4.

• My Nan and Grandad melt Cadbury’s Dairy Milk Chocolate in a glass bowl over a pan of hot water. They then top the cooled profiteroles with lashings of melted chocolate.
• Serve piled high and be prepared to fight off family members for the last one!

Recipe:

A mix of The Dairy Cookbook (a fab, classic recipe book that most of the women in my family own - it can usually be picked up for a song at a charity shop!) and BBC FOOD - http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/chocolateprofiterole_86196

Enjoy!!

Photography © Lucie Kerley

Oh how I miss it now that I don’t live up north anymore!