MY journey into the story of my great aunt Barbara Waterhouse began with a box. It was an ordinary cardboard box of old belongings that eventually found its way to my parents’ house in Horsforth after ...

This delicious pear cake is an Italian classic and is lovely with a cuppa or served with cream as a dessert. Any ripe but firm pears will work. Grease and line the base of a 20cm/8in springform tin ...