Pre-set the oven to 180c or 160c for fan ovens London Cheesecakes are equally fabulous inside or outside of the M25 area and you don't have to start speaking in a cockney accent or calling everyone Guvnor to enjoy them, Put your 'Plates of meat' up on the sofa and indulge.ĥ0g Sweetened desiccated coconut (find this in the baking section, it’s a softer sweeter version of traditional desiccated coconut, if you can’t find it just soften the same amount of coconut in a little boiling water for 15 minutes, drain and remove excess water by squeezing it out through a clean J cloth then adding a heaped teaspoon of icing sugar to coat and sweeten, leave to dry a little then use in the same way) Bakers in the London area would use a long shredded sweetened coconut similar to the old coconut tobacco that you used to buy when I was a hundred years younger but its white in colour without the chocolate taste, but unfortunately shredded coconut is a commercial product and impossible to buy in the shops so I have substituted sweetened desiccated coconut instead. Now before you go and get all antsy on me, they do not contain cheese in any shape size or form and get their name from the coconut on the top.
Although I live in Chorley, Lancashire I originally hailed from Croydon in Surrey so I consider myself a bit of a 'dirty Southerner'! There are few things I miss about the South of England, Sunshine, my family and friends and the lovely seaside town of Brighton in Sussex are a few that I care to mention but I also miss a couple of foods that are just not available in the North of England, Rock salmon from the chippy all covered in whisper thin batter with a portion of chips drowned in pickled onion vinegar ( don't knock it, its better than malt vinegar) and these little pastry delicacies the London Cheesecake.
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