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
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- seasonal
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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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- 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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- 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
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- seasonal
- Summer
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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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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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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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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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- preserving
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- seasonal
- Spring
- Summer
- Tomatoes
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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
- Recipe
- seasonal
- 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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- preserving
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- Reducing waste
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MANDARIN AND STAR ANISE JAM
Mandarins are appearing in the markets and shops. They are the best snacking fruit and make a great jam. Star anise is a classic flavour combination with mandarin. Spread t...
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Oven Dried Preserved Tomatoes
Drying tomatoes in the sun is a beautiful thing to do, but you can achieve the same results much more quickly using your home oven. Make like the 90's and put oven dried to...
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- seasonal
- Summer
- Tomatoes
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