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Game pie with an excellent pastry and spiced, braised red cabbage
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Really excellent pie, cobbled together from fairly standard technique that I will relay here. Ideally the pastry is prepared before starting on the filling. Ingredients 1 x Roughly sliced onion…
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Sticky Ginger cake
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Come November and the winter urges set upon me, the cosy, warmly lit nights, the pumpkin pie, the mulled cider and the spiced cake. I’d never made a ginger cake…
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Cinnamon Fruit (Christmas) Cake
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Double the mixture makes 3 of the small round tins. Threw in some clove spice also. Fruit was mixed with cointreau, also used to feed the cake. The small tins…
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Sautéed mushrooms
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A fine sourdough really makes this dish, I suspect without it there would be no hard feelings whatsoever, however the backbone, the texture and that tiny hint of sour just…
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Pot roast partridge
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Remarkably simple and tasty. Well worth the occasional partridge purchase. From The Christmas Chronicles, pg. 78
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Pizza by poolish
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Not more flavoursome than the previous neopolitan, but a fine method for creating a great crust and handling the dough. Perhaps combining the best of both is worthwhile. 200g water…
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Spiced pumpkin soup with bacon
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Excellent soup, warming and packed with flavour. I rescued out a ladleful of the pumpkin and onion chunks from the blended fate of their brethren to add once again before…
