How about this - London has two flags. Above, the flag is that of the City of London - the famed 'Square Mile'. The flag below represents Greater London.
How to see the best of London from the River Thames....................
Alternatively, you can take a flight from the Battersea Heliport, right down the Thames to Greenwich and back
MORNINGTON CRESCENT & The Carreras Cigarette Factory
ST. PANCRAS, a railway station & two churches
Local Recipes
London Cheesecake
The London Cheesecake is a pastry confection that contains no cheese. It was described by Will Self in The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Prawn Cracker as "...not cake at all but rather a square of puff pastry...while so far as I could tell there wasn't any cheese incorporated into this sweetmeat, which instead was garnished with some coconut or mallow shavings."
100g butter
100g caster sugar
100g ground almonds
1 egg, beaten
pack of puff pastry (yes, buy it - life's too short!)
6 teaspoons raspberry jam
200g icing sugar
2 tablespoons water
50g sweet shredded coconut
glace cherries
cut pastry into 8 rectangles. Line baking sheet and place 4 rectangles on it.
Cream together butter and sugar and beat in egg. Fold in ground almonds.
Brush rectangles with jam. Cover each one with the frangipane mixture and smooth over.
Add pastry lids on top and press lightly. Bake for 20 minutes at 200 degrees C. Leave to cool.
Make icing with icing sugar and water and spread over top. Leave to set firmly, then cut each rectangle in half.
Place a glace cherry on each one and sprinkle with coconut strands.
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Tottenham Cake
Tottenham cake is a simple traybake with a pink icing, originally created by Quaker Henry Chalkley in the late 1800s to be an affordable treat for local children. Its distinctive pink color came from mulberries grown at the Tottenham Friends Meeting House. Back then, they sold for just a penny per square. Later, in 1901, they were handed out for free to celebrate Tottenham Hotspur Football Club's first-ever FA Cup win.
150g butter
150g caster sugar
150g self-raising flour
3 eggs
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
125g icing sugar
15ml water
pink colouring
dessicated coconut
Grease and line an 8" square cake tin.
Cream together butter and sugar. Add vanilla then beat in eggs one at a time. Add flour and mix well.
Pour into cake tin and level top. Bake for 25 minutes at 180 degrees C. Allow to cool in tin
Make pink icing and spread over top. Sprinkle with coconut and leave to set before cutting into squares
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