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)
St Peter’s Fish (John Dory) with Red Peppers
Regent's Punch (Georgian)
Meat and Poultry
Park Farm Cherry Gin
Beef in Ginger Beer
Preserves and Chutneys
Pot Roast Brisket with Christmas Spices
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
Bramley Apple and Onion Pickle
Chiddingly Hot Pot (Sussex)
Cranberry and Apple Chutney
Cheese Pudding (and Collops) (V - without the Collops!)
Cottage Smallholders Plum Chutney
Gloucestershire Pie
Bramley Apple & Crystallised Ginger Jam
Christmas Leftovers - Boxing Day Pie
Fragrant Cherry Chutney
Coal Miner’s Pie (Nottinghamshire)
NEW No-Fuss Mincemeat
Game
Roast Venison with Pickled Walnuts
Pot Roast Venison in Red Wine Sauce
Bakery
Autumn Pheasant
Hop Pickers - Oast Cakes
Venison (or Beef) Under a Blanket
Traditional Bread Pudding
Safe Poultry Cooking (and much more) - Food Standards Agency calculators & advice. “Let’s Talk Turkey” - advice from FSA
Twelfth Night Cake
Accompaniments
Coventry God Cakes (God’s Kichels) (New Year & Easter)
Bramley Apple and Parsnip Soufflé (Christmas)
Cranberry Puffs (good for Christmas)
Cherry and Juniper Jus
Carol Singers Pepper Cake
Desserts
Soul Cakes (traditional)
Baked Custard with Ginger
Mince Pyes (traditional)
Plum, Blackberry and Sloe Gin Crumble
Whirly Mince Pies (a tasty twist)
Snow Pancakes (Shrovetide)
Fresh Ginger Cake (Hallowe’en)
Kent Lenten Pudding Pie (Lent)
Kentish Apple Gingerbread
Figgy Pudding (Palm Sunday)
Maids of Honour (May Day)
Rhubarb and Ginger Cheesecake
Fairings
Stir Up Sunday & Christmas Pudding
Cambridge “Rowing Eight” Cake
Tipsy Laird - Burns Night
Revel Buns (Easter)
Pimms No.1 Jelly
Whitsun Cake
Summer Fruit Jelly
Stem Ginger Cake (Fete bake)
Autumn Fruits Fudge Pudding
Bramley Apple Crumble Bar (Fete Bake)
Frumenty (Furmenty)
Belgian Chocolate and Whisky Cake (Fete Bake)
Fig Sue (Bread Posset)
Golden Syrup and Walnut Sandwich Cake (Fete Bake)
Rhubarb Cobbler Whirl
Coffee and Walnut Sandwich Cake (Fete Bake)
Clipping Time Pudding
Queen Mother’s Date & Walnut Cake (Fete Bake)
Ripe Tart
Grasmere Gingerbread (Fete Bake)
Cumberland Rum Nicky
Never Fail Cake (Fete Bake)
Poor Knights of Windsor
Butter Cream Icing (and flavours)
Ember Day Tart (Holy Cross Day)
Bury Simnel Cake (Mothers Day)
Plum Dump Tart
Cattern Cakes (St Catherine’s Day)
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
Beltane Cake (and the Beltane Carline)
Microwave Treacle Sponge Pudding
Welsh Cakes (Pice ar y Maen)
Bee Hive Puddings
Roasted Rhubarb and Custard Cake
Hasty Pudding
ANZAC Day Biscuits
Gooseberry and Elderflower Icecream
NZ Moist Carrot Cake (Lynsted with Kingsdown Society Tea Tasting)
Baked Wardens (pears)
Lemon Drizzle Cake (Lynsted with Kingsdown Society Tea Tasting)
St Clement’s Tartlets
Bird Cake for the Garden!
Apple Harvest Pudding
Chocolate Yorkshire Puddings
Michaelmas Dumplings
Bride Cake
Devonshire Rum Pudding
Gingerbread Husbands
Vegetables
Christmas Cake (1940’s Style)
Winter Vegetables & Gruyere Parcels
Staffordshire Oatcakes (Staffordshire)
Asparagus Gratin
Devonshire Splits (Devonshire)
Christmas Raised Vegetable Pie
Bath Buns (Georgian)
Roasted Beetroot with Honey and Thyme
Rout Cakes (Georgian)
Pease Pudden
Whigs or Wigs (Georgian)
Spring Greens - Stir Fry
Sauty Bannocks (like a scone)
Sprout and Almond Tart
Lamingtons (Australia Day)
Vegetable Bake
Rutland Plum Shuttles (Rutland)
Spring Greens with bacon
Harcake (Thor Cake)
Baked Potato in the Bonfire
Suffolk Buns (St. Edmunds Day)
Kent Cobnut, Avocado and Pepper Salad
Oat Bread (Warwickshire)
Stuffed Picnic Loaf (Picnics)
Pope Lady Cake (St Albans)
Carlings (Passiontide - dried peas)
NEW Stout Hearted Cake
Garlic, Anchovy and Cauliflower Penne
Ideal for Snacks
Mediterranean Vegetable Pie V
Apple Dumpling (Father’s Day & Picnics)
Pokerounce (Valentine’s Day)
Confectionary
Food for Thought
Cyflaith (Treacle Toffee) - traditional for Welsh New Year
Packaged versus Home-made food? Thoughts on prices and knowing what is in your food.
Food Miles (also the “French” Bean Story, and Farmers Weekly Campaign for local produce)
Soap Box: English Apples - A Lost Treat? November addendum
