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BEANS!
Mum used to make us this for us when we were kids, and although it should work with almost any kind of white bean
- Flageolet, Broad (Fava) beans, Cannellini (White Kidney, Fazolia) -
we haven't really tried it with Butter (Lima) beans or Haricot (Navy) beans.
It tastes particularly good made with Flageolet though.
- Flageolet, Broad (Fava) beans, Cannellini (White Kidney, Fazolia) -
we haven't really tried it with Butter (Lima) beans or Haricot (Navy) beans.
It tastes particularly good made with Flageolet though.
Serves 4
Ingredients
- 1lb dried white beans - Flageolet are nice
- 6 bay leaves (optional)
- 6 (ish) celery stalks
- juice of 2-3 lemons
- olive oil
Actually - now Suzannah has tried these we don't think Mum made them at all!
I (mistakenly) copied them from one of her Be·Ro Cookbooks.
I (mistakenly) copied them from one of her Be·Ro Cookbooks.
Ingredients
- 4 oz short pastry
- white of 1 egg
- 1 oz desiccated coconut
- raspberry jam
- 2 oz caster sugar
Roll pastry into an oblong about 9"x6".
Spread with raspberry jam and bake.
Whip the egg white until very stiff. Add 1 dessertspoonful of the caster sugar and whip until stiff enough to form peaks.
Fold...
Spread with raspberry jam and bake.
Whip the egg white until very stiff. Add 1 dessertspoonful of the caster sugar and whip until stiff enough to form peaks.
Fold...
Yet another Be·Ro recipe. It looks familiar - maybe Mum used to make them for us at Christmas?
Though it does look suspiciously complicated.
Though it does look suspiciously complicated.
Ingredients
- 4 oz short pastry
- lemon curd to decorate
Biscuit...
Again, not really Mum's - more Be·Ro's. But then theft is the highest form of praise.
You might be tempted to try using espresso coffee instead of instant, or essence, but don't. You'd have to add so much liquid to get the requisite amount of coffee flavour that the mixture would end up too runny, and the kisses collapse into pancakes while baking :(
You might be tempted to try using espresso coffee instead of instant, or essence, but don't. You'd have to add so much liquid to get the requisite amount of coffee flavour that the mixture would end up too runny, and the kisses collapse into pancakes while baking :(
Makes about a half dozen
Ingredients
- 6 oz self-raising flour
- 3 oz caster sugar
- 3 oz margarine
- ...
Another of Mum's Christmas specials courtesy of Be·Ro
Or at least, I hope this is the one she used to make, Yep, this is definitely the one except that she'd make them in one large 9"x6" baking tin, rather than individual tartlets.
Or at least, I hope this is the one she used to make, Yep, this is definitely the one except that she'd make them in one large 9"x6" baking tin, rather than individual tartlets.
Ingredients
- 8 oz short pastry
- 4 oz margarine
- 4 oz caster sugar
- 4 oz desiccated coconut
- one egg, beaten
- raspberry jam 2-3 tablespoons - mix in some Chambord too!
Roll out the pastry thinly and line...
Well, they're not really Mum's - they're Be·Ro's. But Mum used to make 'em every Christmas, so it still counts.
Ingredients
- 6 oz short pastry
- 2 oz margarine
- 2 oz sugar
- 2 oz ground almonds
- 2 oz ground rice
- 1 egg
- 1½oz chopped almonds
- raspberry jam 2-3 tablespoons - mix in some Chambord too!
Line 7 inch square baking tin with pastry and spread fairly thinly with raspberry jam.
Cream margarine and sugar.
Add ground almonds, ground...
Cream margarine and sugar.
Add ground almonds, ground...
They might be quick, but to be honest they're far from crunchy. Or at least they're only crunchy for a few days. Mum must have made them weeks ahead of Christmas - after which time spent waiting in a rusty old biscuit tin they'd become as limp as dish rags :)
So interestingly, I've subsequently discovered that these are actually the descendants of an antipodean delicacy known as Anzac biscuits (or wafers or tiles). They were sent out to...
Makes 2 family-sized puddings
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 4 oz self-raising flour
- 4 oz breadcrumbs
- 4 oz suet
- 4 oz sugar
- 1 Tablespoon treacle
- ½ cupful stout
- Juice of 1 orange
- 1 grated apple
- raisins
- currants
- sultanas (about 1lb of dried fruit in total)
- 1 or 2 eggs
Steam for 2 hours, then steam again before serving at the Christmas dinner table.
Makes 4 loaves
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 2 lbs self-raising flour
- 2 lb fruit
- ¾ lb marg oooh marg! Yum
- 2 oz peel
- 6 eggs
- 2 oz cherries
- 2 oz grated almonds
- 3 Tablespoons rum
- 1 lb brown sugar
- mixed spice 2-3 teaspoons
- about 3 Tablespoons Mather's Black Beer
Stir it all up, cut the butter into the flour, blend in the sugar, eggs, liquids, spices (perhaps add a little (1 tsp) vanilla essence), then add the fruit and nuts adding Black Beer until the mixture is...
Via Kurt's secret recipe book.
Ingredients
- ½-1lb mixed steak and kidney
- plain flour
- salt
For pastry:- 8oz self-raising flour
- 4 oz suet
Mix self-raising flour & suet with cold water to make pastry.
Roll out ⅔ and line pudding basin. Coat pieces of meat with plain flour seasoned with salt, and put in basin. Add a splash of water.
Roll out the remaining pastry to form a lid. Cover with foil.
Steam for 1½-2 hours
Roll out ⅔ and line pudding basin. Coat pieces of meat with plain flour seasoned with salt, and put in basin. Add a splash of water.
Roll out the remaining pastry to form a lid. Cover with foil.
Steam for 1½-2 hours
Fried rice with leftover Christmas bird
Our family's traditional way of using up the last of the Christmas goose and possibly the Christmas gravy.
Mum doesn't believe in measuring her ingredients. So you're on your own!
Just bear in mind that half a cup of rice will normally feed one person.
Mum doesn't believe in measuring her ingredients. So you're on your own!
Just bear in mind that half a cup of rice will normally feed one person.
Ingredients
- 1 tin peas, drained
- tomatoes, chopped
- long grain rice
- stock or diluted gravy
- onions, chopped
- bacon, chopped
- leftover Christmas fowl,...
Via Kurt's secret recipe book.
Ingredients
- sausage
- 1 onion, chopped
- Yorkshire pudding batter
- grated cheese
Cook the sausages and cut into pieces.
Cook the onion and put in a dish with the sausage.
Cover with the batter. Sprinkle with the grated cheese.
Bake at Gas mark 6 until cooked.
Cook the onion and put in a dish with the sausage.
Cover with the batter. Sprinkle with the grated cheese.
Bake at Gas mark 6 until cooked.
Until well-risen at the edges and firmly set in the centre, 25-30 minutes.
Via Kurt's secret recipe book.
Serves 4
Ingredients
- 5 oz (150g) plain flour
- ¼ pt (5 fl oz/150ml) milk
- 2 eggs
Whisk well together until creamy and lump free.
Heat fat in pudding tins in the oven at Gas Mark 5-6 until it's giving a blue haze.
Pour in the batter. Cook for about 20 minutes, until risen and golden.
Heat fat in pudding tins in the oven at Gas Mark 5-6 until it's giving a blue haze.
Pour in the batter. Cook for about 20 minutes, until risen and golden.
It's worth noting the stellar work done on the science of Yorkshire puddings by Serious Eats in which he comes to the conclusion...
Well, I'll say one thing for my old Mum, she gets around a bit.
On her return from China she wanted to re-create a dish she enjoyed there. We made a good stab at it, though I think it probably needs more work.
On her return from China she wanted to re-create a dish she enjoyed there. We made a good stab at it, though I think it probably needs more work.
Method
Our first attempt involved making caramel from sugar and water, and throwing in some boiled sweet potato cubes. This didn't work because of the amount of water which came off the potatoes and diluted the...
According to the song Stacy's Mum was a bit of a goer.
Well, like Mother like Daughter :)
Here's her Marmite loaf. She was very proud of the recipe, and rather disappointed when I was unimpressed. If England had trailer trash, Stacy's Marmite loaf would feel right at home.
I'm saying nothing more.
IngredientsWell, like Mother like Daughter :)
Here's her Marmite loaf. She was very proud of the recipe, and rather disappointed when I was unimpressed. If England had trailer trash, Stacy's Marmite loaf would feel right at home.
I'm saying nothing more.
- 4 oz cheese
- 4 oz onion
- 4 oz mushrooms
- 8 oz brown bread
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon Marmite
This is the official recipe. You chop the ingredients...
Ingredients
- 8 oz Mum's short pastry
- ½lb cheese, grated
- 2 onions, sliced or finely chopped
Roll out ½ the pastry.
Cover with grated cheese & onion.
Top with the remaining rolled pastry, and seal the edges with cold water.
Bake at Gas mark 5 until golden - about 20 minutes.
Cover with grated cheese & onion.
Top with the remaining rolled pastry, and seal the edges with cold water.
Bake at Gas mark 5 until golden - about 20 minutes.
Ingredients
1 large tin (400g) pilchards in tomato sauce
1 onion, chopped
2 tomatoes, chopped
6 oz cheese pastry
Method 1 onion, chopped
2 tomatoes, chopped
6 oz cheese pastry
Bone the pilchards, removing the spine and any larger bones. Mash up with their tomato sauce.
Fry the onion until soft, remove from the heat and mix with the chopped tomatoes and pilchards.
Roll out ½ the pastry, place on a baking sheet and spread over the fish mixture.
Top with the rest of the pastry, seal around the edges and make 3-4...
Fry the onion until soft, remove from the heat and mix with the chopped tomatoes and pilchards.
Roll out ½ the pastry, place on a baking sheet and spread over the fish mixture.
Top with the rest of the pastry, seal around the edges and make 3-4...
- 6oz Mum's short pastry or perhaps 8oz
- sausages or minced meat about half a dozen sausages
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 large tin baked beans
- 2 cloves garlic, crushed
Fry the meat, onion & garlic until cooked.
Cut up the sausages (if using).
Mix in the beans & heat.
Line a pie dish with ½ the pastry.
Fill with the meat and beans.
Top with remaining pastry.
Bake at Gas Mark 5 for about 30 minutes until browned.
Cut up the sausages (if using).
Mix in the beans & heat.
Line a pie dish with ½ the pastry.
Fill with the meat and beans.
Top with remaining pastry.
Bake at Gas Mark 5 for about 30 minutes until browned.
Serves 4
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 6 or 8 oz suet pastry
- minced meat about 1 lb
- 1 chopped onion
- 2 cloves garlic, crushed
- curry powder to taste around 2-3 teaspoons per lb of mince
Fry meat, onion, garlic, curry powder until meat cooked.
Roll out suet pastry to oblong. Use 6 or 8 oz of flour to make the pastry, depending on which of Mum's versions you prefer :)
Roll out suet pastry to oblong. Use 6 or 8 oz of flour to make the pastry, depending on which of Mum's versions you prefer :)
Definitely 8!
Spread meat mixture on pastry, then roll up with the long edge towards you, sealing the ends and... I believe Mum actually called this Fish Pie, or just Fish in Cheese Sauce but if you've tried it I'm sure you agree my title is much more apt. My sister calls it Fish Fricassé - the pretentious git :)
Ingredients
- 1lb haddock or cod, skinned and boned
- ½-¾ pint milk
- 1 tablespoon cornflour or perhaps two! actually 3!!
- cheese, grated about 250g
- 3 tomatoes
- 2 slices fresh breadcrumbs optional
Boil the fish in water why not the...
Method
Prepare
Cover fish sauce in oven at gas 4 for ~30 minutes.
- 1½lb cubed, skinned Haddock.
- 2 medium onions
- 1 clove garlic
- Tblsp curry powder
- Tblsp plain flour
Prepare
- ½ pt stock
- 2 Tblsps tomato purée
- juice ½ lemon
- 8 oz tomatoes
- tsp dried ginger
- optional mushrooms and marjoram
Cover fish sauce in oven at gas 4 for ~30 minutes.
8 oz self-raising flour
4 oz suet
1 tsp salt
8 Tblsps water
1 small onion, sliced
Method 4 oz suet
1 tsp salt
8 Tblsps water
1 small onion, sliced
Mix up the dough as for suet pastry, add the sliced onion, put into a baking dish and bake in the oven at Gas Mark 6 (or whatever you happen to have it set to) for 20-40 minutes until it's cooked through, you can see bubbling fat separating, and browning on top.
Goes nicely with roast lamb.
Goes nicely with roast lamb.
I've wondered about adding ingredients like diced apple, bacon or herbs....
Serves 4-6
Ingredients
Ingredients
1 oz margarine
6 oz sugar
2 oz (plain or not?) flour
2 eggs, separated
rind and juice of 1 lemon
8-10 tablespoons of water
Method 6 oz sugar
2 oz (plain or not?) flour
2 eggs, separated
rind and juice of 1 lemon
8-10 tablespoons of water
Sift the flour and sugar into a bowl. Using a large fork work in margarine until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.
Add the yolks, rind and juice of the lemon. Mix to a paste with the fork and then add the water and mix until it is combined with the mixture.
Whisk the egg whites until they are stiff...
Add the yolks, rind and juice of the lemon. Mix to a paste with the fork and then add the water and mix until it is combined with the mixture.
Whisk the egg whites until they are stiff...
Ingredients
8 oz self-raising flour
4 oz suet
1 tsp salt
8 Tblsps water
Method 4 oz suet
1 tsp salt
8 Tblsps water
Mix the flour, salt and suet.
Mix in the water using cutting movements with a knife until you have a thick dough.
Use as required.
Mix in the water using cutting movements with a knife until you have a thick dough.
Use as required.
Crumble Crust
4 cups (crushed) sweet biscuits (Digestive)
4 oz butter (real)
Filling4 oz butter (real)
1 lemon jelly
½ cup boiling water
1½ cups evaporated milk (chilled)
8 oz Philadelphia cheese (softened room temp)
1 cup Castor sugar
1 teaspoon lemon essence and 1 large lemon to give:
¼ cup lemon juice
Dessert spoon grated lemon rind
Method ½ cup boiling water
1½ cups evaporated milk (chilled)
8 oz Philadelphia cheese (softened room temp)
1 cup Castor sugar
1 teaspoon lemon essence and 1 large lemon to give:
¼ cup lemon juice
Dessert spoon grated lemon rind
Mix biscuit crumbs with melted butter and press into tin. Chill till set.
Dissolve jelly in boiling...
Dissolve jelly in boiling...
Base
1½ margarine
4 oz digestive biscuits (crushed in a polythene bag)
1½ oz caster sugar
Filling4 oz digestive biscuits (crushed in a polythene bag)
1½ oz caster sugar
1 packet orange jelly
8oz cream cheese
¼ pint whipped cream
juice of 1 large orange
fresh orange segments and a little grated chocolate for garnish
Method 8oz cream cheese
¼ pint whipped cream
juice of 1 large orange
fresh orange segments and a little grated chocolate for garnish
Melt the margarine in a saucepan and add crushed biscuits and sugar. Mix well and press into the base of an 8" flan tin (with a loose base).
Make up the fruit juice to...
Make up the fruit juice to...
Ingredients
Slices of buttered bread
chopped onion
milk
Method chopped onion
milk
Butter the slices of bread, cut them into pieces and mix with about the same volume of reasonably finely chopped onion.
Put the mixture into an oven-proof dish, and just cover with milk.
Season, and add a little cream and a grating of nutmeg if you like
Bake at the bottom of the oven when you roast your turkey, goose or ostrich, or at around Gas mark 4 for about an hour or...
Put the mixture into an oven-proof dish, and just cover with milk.
Season, and add a little cream and a grating of nutmeg if you like
Bake at the bottom of the oven when you roast your turkey, goose or ostrich, or at around Gas mark 4 for about an hour or...
Ingredients
- minced meat
- 1 chopped onion
- 1-2 cloves garlic, crushed
- 2 tomatoes, chopped
- hot curry powder to taste around 4-6 teaspoons per kg mince
- 3-4 medium potatoes
- grated cheese
Fry mince, onion, garlic & curry powder until meat is cooked. Add tomato & remove from heat.
Boil potatoes until soft. Mash with milk and add grated cheese.
Put meat mixture in casserole, cover with potato mix. Roughen top with a fork.
Cook in oven at Gas Mark 5 until...
Boil potatoes until soft. Mash with milk and add grated cheese.
Put meat mixture in casserole, cover with potato mix. Roughen top with a fork.
Cook in oven at Gas Mark 5 until...
Ingredients
6 oz self-raising flour
3 oz Trex, lard, or vegetable shortening
2-4 oz cheddar cheese, grated
water
Method 3 oz Trex, lard, or vegetable shortening
2-4 oz cheddar cheese, grated
water
Mix the flour and the Trex with your fingertips until it resembles breadcrumbs, then add the grated cheese.
Gradually add a little water and mix with a knife until it holds together as a dough, then roll out the pastry.
Gradually add a little water and mix with a knife until it holds together as a dough, then roll out the pastry.
Via Kurt's secret recipe book.
Dunno where she got this one - not from me!
Dunno where she got this one - not from me!
Ingredients
- 1 small red cabbage
- 1 large onion
- 1 eating apple
- 1 wine glass Marsala wine or port
- dash vodka or brandy
- bouquet garni
- 2 bay leaves
Remove stalk and chop cabbage.
Chop onion & apple.
Put in lidded casserole with herbs & wine. Add salt & pepper to taste.
I (this is Mum talking) usually add just a dash of vodka or brandy, or whatever I get hold of first.
...
Chop onion & apple.
Put in lidded casserole with herbs & wine. Add salt & pepper to taste.
I (this is Mum talking) usually add just a dash of vodka or brandy, or whatever I get hold of first.
...
Ingredients
- 1.4lb roasting chicken, dry and score.
- 2x5 oz cartons yoghurt (plus one)
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 tsp ginger
- ¼-½ tsp chilli
- ½ tsp turmeric
- ½ tsp mixed spice
- 2 Tblsps chopped fresh mint
- 1 Tblsp ground cumin seeds
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 tsp sugar
Mix the ingredients and cover and marinate the chicken for more than 8 hours.
Line a casserole (or chicken brick) with foil, put chicken in and pour over marinade,...
Line a casserole (or chicken brick) with foil, put chicken in and pour over marinade,...
Ingredients
- 1 egg
- ¼ cup evaporated milk
- pinch garlic salt
- ¼ cup flour
- 1 can cream-style corn
- 2 tablespoons melted margarine
Mix first ingredients, then add the corn and melted marge or butter.
Bake in a buttered casserole dish, 325°F for 1 hour.
Bake in a buttered casserole dish, 325°F for 1 hour.
Very tasty, though somewhat sweet.
Ingredients
6 oz self-raising flour
3 oz lard or vegetable shortening
⅔ tsp salt
cold water, about 6 Tblsps
Method 3 oz lard or vegetable shortening
⅔ tsp salt
cold water, about 6 Tblsps
Mix flour and salt in basin, lightly rub in the lard or shortening until the mixture looks like fine breadcrumbs.
Using a knife to cut and stir, mix with just enough very cold water to make a stiff paste.
Turn the dough on to a floured board or worktop and roll out.
Using a knife to cut and stir, mix with just enough very cold water to make a stiff paste.
Turn the dough on to a floured board or worktop and roll out.
It's a recipe from Aline's Mum!
Aline served it as a baked potato topping and it was rather nice, so here it is...
Aline served it as a baked potato topping and it was rather nice, so here it is...
Ingredients
- tons of shrooms
- a few cloves of garlic
- an onion
- salt, pepper
- and yeah lots of parsley
- Mum would add cream - which is delicious, not for me sadly :) That's Aline talking about her Mum. Not me.
Fry the onion, garlic, then the mushrooms, stir in cream if you're using it,...
The quantities here aren't critical, you want enough cream for the number of people you have to feed, enough sugar to make it sweet enough for the dish you are serving it with (you can add more sugar once you're heating the custard), and as many egg yolks as you need to thicken it to your taste.
You can get it surprisingly thick if you add loads of yolks.
The quantities below are a good starter, though I would...
You can get it surprisingly thick if you add loads of yolks.
The quantities below are a good starter, though I would...
I didn't exactly follow a recipe here, and didn't really make a note of the quantities I used, but honestly I think it will be hard to go wrong. (Famous last words!)
You can use as little cream as you like with the milk. You might also flavour with lemon or orange peel, or you might try glazing the cooked pudding with a smear of apricot jam.
You can use as little cream as you like with the milk. You might also flavour with lemon or orange peel, or you might try glazing the cooked pudding with a smear of apricot jam.
Serves 4
Ingredients
- half a dozen or so slices of bread
- butter
- raisins...
Italian meatballs
These polpette are the Italian version of stovies - meatballs made from leftover meat.
As prepared by Flora's beau Marco following his Mother's recipe.
As prepared by Flora's beau Marco following his Mother's recipe.
Serves 2-4
Ingredients
- ½ lb cooked meat, minced
- ¼ lb hard cheese, grated
- 2 potatoes, cooked, mashed
- 2 eggs
- bunch parsley, chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, crushed
- nutmeg, grated
- stale or baked bread, crumbed
- butter, for frying
Mince the meat in a meat grinder...
Reasonably pleasant though, plus it's an excuse to make up a batch of lemon curd, so bonuses all round.