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...
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Pickled Cherries and cherry waste hacks
Cherries are the fanciest fruit on the Christmas table, and we love eating them by the fistful when they’re in season. Sweet, tart and a bit peppery, our favourite way to ...
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Malt Pickled Onions
Malt Onion Pickles are a classic crowd pleaser. They are rich and savoury with warm spices and malt vinegar. Make a batch and let them sit for the next few months, come Chr...
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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...
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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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Pickled Cumquats
We love cumquats for their sweet bitterness and one of our favourite recipes is to pickle them! Tart, bitey and sweetly spiced, pickled cumquats are great in a grainy salad...
- Citrus
- pickles
- preserving
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- Winter
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Indian Style Lemon Pickle
If you're making lots of stews, curries and slow cooked meals this winter, make this insanely addictive condiment. This is an Indian style pickle where the lemons are prese...
- Citrus
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- preserving
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- Winter
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Piccalilli or Garden Relish
Piccalilli was one of the first pickles we made at Cornersmith. It is an English interpretation of an Indian Pickle where vegetables are preserved in an delcious spiced mus...
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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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Pickled Green Tomatoes
Green Tomatoes – unripe red tomatoes – are our favourite spring vegetable. Tart, crunchy and delicious, they make the best pickles, and these ones just get better and bette...
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- Spring
- Summer
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Turmeric Pickled Mango
This is from the Spring chapter of our new cookbook. Mangoes are now in full swing, so it's time to get preserving! They're delicious mixed in through asian-style salads, o...
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- seasonal
- Spring
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Nasturtium Pod Pickles: Poor Man's Capers.
We have an unruly field of nasturtiums growing in our back yard. When the warm weather hits and the flowers start to drop you'll start seeing the pods appear. They're time ...
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- Summer
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