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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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...
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- 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 stirred through yoghu...
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- preserving
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- Winter
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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
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- seasonal
- Winter
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How to: Make a Starter
A sourdough starter is made from just flour, water and time. By fermenting your wheat flour, the phylic acid is broken down and as your starter ferments it productes wild ...
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Puttanesca, Cornersmith style
We love a recipe that makes the most out of opening the cupboard and improvising with what you find. Enter, puttanesca. The origins of this sauce are hotly debated, as som...
- cooking
- seasonal
- Tomatoes
- Use It All
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Sour Cream Pastry
This is the simplest pastry to make, it's very forgiving and will bolster your confidence to become the baker you were always meant to be. We use this pastry for pies, gale...
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USE IT ALL: GREEN POCKETS
These green pockets are the ultimate fast food! They are our version of gozleme and we’ve been making them for years. If it’s the weekend we’ll make the simple yoghurt doug...
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Mulled Pears and Waste Hack Pear Core Syrup
Add a little indulgence to your everyday meals with these warmly spiced Mulled Pears, bottled in rich red wine. They'll be perfect on your cheeseboard or thinly sliced thro...
- Autumn
- cooking
- preserving
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- seasonal
- Winter
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Pumpkin Waste Hacks: from Marmalade to Mole
As we keep saying, there’s so much flavour in the skin, seeds and stems. So, there’s no reason these parts should end up in the bin. Here’s two very delicious waste hack re...
- Autumn
- cooking
- preserving
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- seasonal
- Sustainable
- Use It All
- Waste
- Winter
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The Power of Pickling
We want to spread our love of pickling, so we've decided to share two of our most loved, slightly more interesting recipes – pickled ginger grapes with a delicious grainy s...
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- pickles
- preserving
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Ava's roasted pear, sweet parsnip, hazelnut and wattle seed toast.
Our Marrickville head chef, Ava, shares her recipe for her favourite weekend brunch. Brown sugar and lemon roasted pears, sweet parsnip puree, wattle seed, honey and hazeln...
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Whole Grilled Corn with Miso and Lime Aioli and Basil
What is better than corn on the cob? Corn on the cob with this insane aioli. This is the perfect summer dish - we'd even say it's a summer essential - warmly welcomed at a...
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- Summer
- Use It All
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