The weather may remain dry this afternoon I will resume wall painting then. In between showers the girls have been jostling for the sunny position on the trendy blue sofa. I have been making fat rascals for most of the morning Between 1986 and 1989 I lived in the city of York . Before my late nursing shift start at 1 pm, I would often go to Betty’s tea rooms which is situated in St Helen’s square, to have myself a small Golden carafe of coffee and a fat rascal. There was a single table upstairs which I loved to sit in, where I would pretentiously read my book and scoff my rascal This morning I made Fat Rascals for the very first time. Now for those that don’t know a Fat Rascal is a cross between a scone and a bun; in actual fact it is a Rock cake which is filled with fruit, orange zest, whole bleached almonds and glacè cherries. The last three ingredients make the rascal taste so good They should be eaten warm with butter and should be large, two ...
