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Recipes & Relationships...

An important part of any solicitors work is to deal with relationship as a whole. Vanessa Lloyd Platt’s book “Secrets of Relationship Success” focused on what efforts could be made to improve relationships.

Food, relationships and happiness are very much interlinked and Lloyd Platt is now launching its recipe page so that members of the public, and celebrities alike, can send us their recipes to improve relationships or recipes that were made prior to the end of a relationship (to be known as the “Last Supper” recipes) with an explanation of why the recipe sent has some emotional meaning for them.

This will apply to men and women alike – this site insists on equal opportunities for all!

Celebrities will also be heavily contributing to the site.

Brian Turner

Recipe No.19 (download)
COFFEE & CREAM BREAD & BUTTER PUDDING

We have a ‘wicked’ dessert from Brian Turner Celebrity Chef and Restauranteur, who has this to say:

"As a young lad growing up in Yorkshire, I had the opportunity of working regularly in my father’s transport café. Not only did I enjoy such wonderful northern delights as bacon, sausage and egg sandwiches, I just loved to pick the caramelised bits of the bread and butter pudding left in the tray – they were divine! As an older person I have been privileged to obtain a source of coffee from the Bangalore region of India, even setting up a foundation to help the villagers picking the coffee in that region. So it seems obvious that I should give this recipe where coffee, bread and butter pudding and decadence are so well combined".

Ingredients (serves four)

• 6 x 1 day old croissants
• 4oz unsalted butter
• 6oz Californian raisins
• 2 eggs
• 5 egg yolks
• 2oz unrefined caste sugar
• ¼ pint milk
• ¾ pint double cream
• 1 expresso cup of strong coffee
• 1 vanilla pod

Topping:

• ¼ pt whipped cream
• 2oz grated dark chocolate
• Icing sugar to dust

Method

1. Put the milk, double cream, coffee and opened vanilla pod into a saucepan and bring to the boil.
2. Whisk the eggs yolks and caster sugar together.
3. Meanwhile slice the croissants in half lengthwise.
4. Use 1oz butter to grease an ovenproof dish.
5. Using 3oz butter, spread this on the cut sides of the croissants.
6. Lay half of them on the base of the dish, butter side up.
7. Sprinkle with raisins and lay croissants on top.
8. Let the boiled cream cool a little, pour onto the egg mixture stirring all the time.
9. Put back onto heat and stir to start to thicken, take off immediately.
10. Strain half over the croissants mixture and allow to soak in for 15 minutes gradually straining over the rest of the mix until all is in the dish.
11. Cook 'an Bain Marie' until set.
12. Take out and allow to cool for 10 minutes.
13. Pipe a line of whipped cream up the middle of the pudding, sprinkle the grated chocolate over the cream and dust the whole thing with icing sugar, serve.