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Mel here, more and more people are turning to baking to relieve stress and anxiety, with many finding the practice enlightening and a perfect way to re-focus on something other than what is troubling them. Baking is methodical, sweet-smelling, calming and above all, productive ... it generally results in something that you can share loved ones, increasing their happiness as well as your own. I started Love Sets The Table as way to document my sweet relief through baking, encouraging and inspiring others along the way.

MORE ABOUT ME

HERE are some of my latest posts

Journal

Scones just like your Nana’s…simple and delicious

Afternoon tea is incomplete without them - once you have this basic recipe in your repertoire you can play around with any number of variations...

Yorkshire Gingernuts - A Dunkers Delight

Yorkshire gingernuts – these are the biscuits of my childhood. I remember wondering what all the fuss what about, as ginger wasn’t high on my list of favourite flavours, more my Nanna’s thing than mine…

Cookbook Addiction

How many cookbooks do you have? Oh my goodness there are ……! Is that too many?or not enough? I comfort myself with Nigella’s admission that she has in excess of 4,000 – I’m not nearly at that number, although I must confess to rather more than most