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The redcurrant jelly disaster

August 16, 2010
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Taking my eye off a pan of stewing fruit proved disastrous. The long and the short of it is the loss of a crop… and no jelly for our toast this autumn.

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Free Delia Smith DVDs

January 30, 2010

The Daily Mail is giving away free Delia Smith DVDs, but you’d better get in quick. The first of four vouchers is printed today, with the second, third and fourth printed between Monday and Wednesday.

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Victory Cookbook by Marguerite Patten

January 15, 2010
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This fascinating book is both a history of how the population coped with meagre wartime rations, but also a useful reference of low-cost, simple recipes that use few ingredients.

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Brie and broccoli quiche recipe

September 25, 2008

Continuing our series on things to make with the eggs you’ll get from a small flock of home-kept hens, which recipe for brie and broccoli quiche is a delicious alternative to the meat-centric quiche lorraine.

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Free cookery book

September 15, 2008

The UK government has decreed that all schools have to start teaching kids how to cook, and to help they’ve produced a free book of 50 everyday recipes.

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How to make pastry

September 9, 2008

Pastry can be quite temperamental, but once you have mastered the art of making it, you can make some big savings on the cost of buying it in.

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Cornish pasty recipe

March 10, 2008

Cornish pastiesCornish pasties are very easy to make – much easier than you probably realise. If you can knock up a pastry you’re half way there, end even if you can’t, you can always buy that part and then fill them with home-grown vegetables and locally-sourced meat.

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Gingerbread recipe

February 27, 2008

GingerbreadGingerbread men are the traditional shape for this biscuit, but if you don’t have a person-shaped cutter to hand you can make these into any shape you like. We chose cats, but if you cut them into strips they are ideal for dunking, and ginger dunks particularly well into tea.

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Condensed milk cookies: recipe

February 13, 2008

2008-condensed-milk-cookies-thumb.jpgThese soft biscuits are wonderfully sweet, thanks to the condensed milk that binds them together, and because you don’t cut down on the sugar.

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What food is in season right now? Part 2: summer

February 10, 2008

Yesterday we took a look at what food is in season right now, and explained how having a good general knowledge of what can be locally produced at any time of the year is key to successful planning of your plot. Today we’re taking a look at the summer months from April through to September, [...]

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