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.
