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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Strawberry and Basil Shrub
Shrubs or drinking vinegars make delicious summer beverages, perfect for cocktails or as an alternative to cordial. They're also a great way for using up excess fruit or he...
- preserving
- Recipe
- Reducing waste
- seasonal
- Summer
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Rhubarb, Strawberry and Apple Jam
Rosy and old fashioned, this is the jam that a storybook grandmother would make. It's not too sweet and is perfect on hot buttered toast, sponge cakes, scones or even in...
- Fruit
- preserving
- Recipe
- seasonal
- Sweet Preserving
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Quince Jam
Quinces are often put in the too-hard pile for the home preserver, with all that peeling and coring and chopping. But our recipe for rosy-pink quince and apple jam takes al...
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Eggplant Kasundi
This is our all-time favourite relish at the Cornersmith Picklery. We serve this with poached eggs, curries, rice dishes, grilled vegetables and meats. Make it - we promise...
- preserving
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- seasonal
- Summer
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Peach and Lime Jam
A fresh, light and tangy jam that is perfect to make this summer. Feel free to switch the peaches for nectarines or apricots and if you don't have limes use lemons or orang...
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Fruit Mince Tarts
Homemade fruit mince tarts are worth the effort. This pastry is crumbly and just sweet enough. Fill tarts with Cornersmith fruit mince, or use your own family recipe. Don't...
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Tomato, Peach, Tarragon & Sumac Summer Salad
This is the perfect simple summer salad when tomatoes and stone fruit are ripe, delicious and abundant. The sumac adds a sour tang to the fruits, while the tarragon adds a ...
- cornersmith
- Recipe
- seasonal
- Summer
- Tomatoes
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Roasted Wrinkly Vegetable Pickle
This antipasto-style pickles is the most delicious way to rescue very tired looking vegetables. By roasting them covering in a light vinegar brine and oil, you end up with ...
- preserving
- Recipe
- seasonal
- Summer
- Sustainable
- Waste
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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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Fermented Pineapple Sambal
Fermented fruit sambals and chutneys are a specialty of Southern Asia, they are therefore well suited to the Australian climate where things ferment fast! Make tacos more i...
- Fermenting
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- seasonal
- Summer
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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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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
- pickles
- preserving
- Recipe
- seasonal
- Winter
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