Cookery Book Index

Drinks

Soups and Starters

Sloe (or Damson) Gin

Roast Parsnip Soup

Geranium Rose Elixir

Pear and Coriander Soup

Dobson’s Bramble Cordial

Watercress Soup (with Pea Variation)

Cherry Liqueur, Cherry Brandy &
Damson Brandy

Fish

Strawberry Liqueur

Salmon and Rocket Quiche

Wassail Cup (New Year traditional)

Roast Sea Bream with Rosemary

Smoking Bishop

Prosciutto wrapped Cod & Honey Glaze

Beltane or May Cup

Roast Sea Trout with Leeks and Capers

NEW Home Made Ginger Lemonade

 

Mulled Cranberry Juice

Meat and Poultry

Preserves and Chutneys

Roast Venison with Pickled Walnuts

Microwave Plum or Damson Jam

Elizabethan Spiced Christmas Beef

Microwave Soft Fruit Jam

Mothers Stew (Simple comfort food)

Spiced Plum (or Damson) Chutney

Spring Roast Lamb

Pear and Fig Mincemeat

Fidget Pie (bacon/ham & fruit)

Cherry and Walnut Mincemeat

Michaelmas Goose with Apples and Prunes

Suetless Mincemeat

Autumn Pheasant

Seville Orange Marmalade

Beef (or Venison) Under a Blanket

Gooseberry Chutney

Bartlemas Beef

Spiced Rhubarb Chutney

Honeyed Welsh Lamb

Gooseberry and Sultana Chutney

Safe Poultry Cooking (and much more) - Food Standards Agency calculators & advice

Pear & Green Pepper Chutney

Desserts

Cottage Smallholders Plum Chutney

Baked Custard with Ginger

 

Plum, Blackberry and Sloe Gin Crumble

Bakery

Snow Pancakes (Shrovetide)

Soul Cakes (traditional)

Kent Lenten Pudding Pie (Lent)

Cranberry Puffs (good for Christmas)

Figgy Pudding (Palm Sunday)

Mince Pyes (traditional)

Rhubarb and Ginger Cheesecake

Whirly Mince Pies (a tasty twist)

Stir Up Sunday & Christmas Pudding

Maids of Honour (May Day)

Tipsy Laird - Burns Night

Fairings

Pimms No.1 Jelly

Kentish Apple Gingerbread

Summer Fruit Jelly

Cambridge “Rowing Eight” Cake

Autumn Fruits Fudge Pudding

Revel Buns (Easter)

Frumenty (Furmenty)

Whitsun  Cake

Fig Sue (Bread Posset)

Golden Syrup and Walnut Sandwich Cake (Good for Fetes!)

Rhubarb Cobbler Whirl

Coffee and Walnut Sandwich Cake
(Good for Fetes!)

Clipping Time Pudding

 

NEW Ripe Tart

Belgian Chocolate and Whisky Cake
(Good for Fetes!)

Vegetables

Butter Cream Icing (and flavours)

Winter Vegetables & Gruyere Parcels

Beltane Cake (and the Beltane Carline)

Asparagus Gratin

Bury Simnel Cake (Mothers Day)

Kent Cobnut, Avocado and Pepper Salad

Gingerbread Husbands

Roasted Beetroot with Honey and Thyme

Christmas Cake (1940’s Style)

Pease Pudden

Traditional Bread Pudding

Spring Greens - Stir Fry

Bird Cake for the Garden!

Spring Greens with bacon

 

Baked Potato in the Bonfire

Sweets

 

Cyflaith (Treacle Toffee) - traditional for Welsh New Year

Food for Thought

 

Food Miles (also the “French” Bean Story, and Farmers Weekly Campaign for local produce)

 

Soap Box: English Apples - A Lost Treat? November addendum

 

Packaged versus Home-made food? Thoughts on prices and knowing what is in your food.

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