Recipe Book

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)

Mulled Cranberry Juice

Bramley Apple and Almond Soup

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

Home Made Ginger Lemonade

Good Friday Fish Pie

Lambs Wool or Gossip Bowl (Georgian)

 

Regent's Punch (Georgian)

 

Park Farm Cherry Gin

 

Preserves and Chutneys

Meat and Poultry

Microwave Plum or Damson Jam

Elizabethan Spiced Christmas Beef

Microwave Soft Fruit Jam

Mothers Stew (Simple comfort food)

Spiced Plum (or Damson) Chutney

Stobhach Gaelach (Irish Stew)

Pear and Fig Mincemeat

Fidget Pie (bacon/ham & fruit)

Cherry and Walnut Mincemeat

Michaelmas Goose with Apples and Prunes

Suetless Mincemeat  V

Spring Roast Lamb

Easy Mincemeat

Lamb Tangine

Seville Orange Marmalade

Beef (or Venison) Under a Blanket

Gooseberry Chutney

Bartlemas Beef

Spiced Rhubarb Chutney

Honeyed Welsh Lamb

Gooseberry and Sultana Chutney

Sausage, Bacon and caramelised Bramley Apple Pie

Pear & Green Pepper Chutney

Farmhouse Breakfast

Cottage Smallholders Plum Chutney

Game

Bramley Apple & Crystallised Ginger Jam

Autumn Pheasant

Fragrant Cherry Chutney

Venison (or Beef) Under a Blanket

Cranberry and Apple Chutney

Roast Venison with Pickled Walnuts

Bramley Apple and Onion Pickle

Pot Roast Venison in Red Wine Sauce

 

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

Bakery

Desserts

Twelfth Night Cake

Baked Custard with Ginger

Carol Singers Pepper Cake

Plum, Blackberry and Sloe Gin Crumble

Fresh Ginger Cake (Hallowe’en)

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

Queen Mother’s Date & Walnut Cake (Good for Fetes!)

Ripe Tart

Belgian Chocolate and Whisky Cake
(Good for Fetes!)

Ember Day Tart (Holy Cross Day)

Bramley Apple Crumble Bar
(Good for Fetes!)

Plum Dump Tart

Butter Cream Icing (and flavours)

Whitsun Oldbury Tart (gooseberries)

Lancashire Wake Cakes

Cranberry and Pecan Pie (Thanksgiving)

Apple, Walnut and Cheese Loaf

Apple and Cherry Pies

Bramley Apple & Cider Cake

Bramley Apple ‘no time’ Pie

Bramley Apple and Ratafia Tart

Canterbury Tart

Cattern Cakes (St Catherine’s Day)

Bramley Apple and Parsnip Soufflé

Beltane Cake (and the Beltane Carline)

Bee Hive Puddings

Bury Simnel Cake (Mothers Day)

Hasty Pudding

ANZAC Day Biscuits

Gooseberry and Elderflower Icecream

Gingerbread Husbands

Vegetables

Christmas Cake (1940’s Style)

Winter Vegetables & Gruyere Parcels

Traditional Bread Pudding

Asparagus Gratin

Hop Pickers - Oast Cakes

Christmas Raised Vegetable Pie

Bird Cake for the Garden!

Roasted Beetroot with Honey and Thyme

Lemon Drizzle Cake (Lynsted with Kingsdown Society Tea Tasting)

Pease Pudden

NZ Moist Carrot Cake (Lynsted with Kingsdown Society Tea Tasting)

Spring Greens - Stir Fry

Coventry God Cakes (God’s Kichels) (New Year & Easter)

Sprout and Almond Tart

Chocolate Yorkshire Puddings

Vegetable Bake

Sauty Bannocks (like a scone)

Spring Greens with bacon

Welsh Cakes (Pice ar y Maen)

Baked Potato in the Bonfire

NEW Bath Buns (Georgian)

Kent Cobnut, Avocado and Pepper Salad

Whigs or Wigs (Georgian)

Mediterranean Vegetable Pie V

Rout Cakes (Georgian)

Garlic, Anchovy and Cauliflower Penne

NEW Roasted Rhubarb and Custard Cake

Stuffed Picnic Loaf (Picnics)

NEW Stem Ginger Cake (fete bake)

 

Ideal for Snacks

Food for Thought

Apple Dumpling (Father’s Day & Picnics)

 

Pokerounce (Valentine’s Day)

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

Confectionary

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

Cyflaith (Treacle Toffee) - traditional for Welsh New Year

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

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