RECIPES

Headed by Alex Elliott-Howery, the Cornersmith Kitchens bring traditional food knowledge and skills to modern cooks. With a focus on preserving, salads and good home cooking, you'll find recipes that nourish, reduce food waste and help you love being in the kitchen.

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An end of season pickling recipe for gardeners
Our gardens are heaving with too many cucumbers and green tomatoes that aren't ripening. It is often at the end of the season when we get busy in the pickling kitchen. This...
- pickles
- preserving
- Recipe
- seasonal
- Sustainable
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Preserving Chillies: Chilli Jam, Drying Chillies at Home and Chilli Top Vinegar
Our chilli plants at home are still going strong, and there's plenty available at the markets – but not for long. This week we're sharing our recipe for everyone's favourit...
- cooking
- preserving
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- seasonal
- Summer
- Sweet Preserving
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Chai Spiced Breakfast Prunes
These breakfast prunes, preserved in black tea, honey, and plenty of warming spices, make a wonderful addition to your morning porridge, are delicious ontop of a bowl of po...
- cooking
- preserving
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- seasonal
- Winter
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Mango Chutney
When the mangoes are cheap or you have a neighbourhood mango tree that is dropping fruit faster than you can eat it, make this chutney! It's delicious with seafood, ham and...
- Christmas
- preserving
- Recipe
- seasonal
- Summer
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Making Marmalade and Ways to Use It
Making marmalade isn’t hard and this small-scale recipe uses up the last few bits of citrus in the fruit bowl. You can easily store it in the fridge for a few months or dou...
- Citrus
- preserving
- Recipe
- Sweet Preserving
- Winter
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Kitchen Scrap Fermenting
Keep your kitchen projects easy. A kitchen scrap ferment is just the thing. Make this at the end of the week when you have a few extra vegetables left. if you have never tr...
- Fermenting
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There's more than one way to eat a pickle.
Sure pickles are great on a burger and in a toastie but a jar of pickles is the secret ingredient that you’ll want to have on hand to boost flavour in everyday dishes or w...
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Pumpkin and Sesame Chutney
This is the recipe for one of our most famous chutneys. The natural sweetness of pumpkin is spiced with sesame seeds and ginger to warm up even the coldest winter day. Thi...
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Blood Orange Tarte Tartin & Blood Orange Caramel
This easy orange caramel is insanely delicious over cakes, ice-cream or drizzled over a plate of freshly peeled and cut orange slices. I use a teaspoon of this sauce in sa...
- Citrus
- cooking
- Flour and Pastry
- Recipe
- seasonal
- Winter
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Gin Pickled Cucumbers
These are a staple on Alex's Christmas lunch table. Make a few jars and give them as gifts. On the big day eat them with cured fish and oysters, or ham sandwiches and chees...
- Christmas
- cornersmith
- pickles
- preserving
- seasonal
- Summer
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Why jars are important in preserving
The importance of using good quality glass jars when preserving and how to know which one is best for the job.
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Deli Style Gherkins
Many would say this is the original European pickle. Picked in Summer, submerged in a salty brine and eaten through the long hard Winter. Fermented gherkins have a sour puc...
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