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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- Summer
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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...
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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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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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- Spring
- Summer
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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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- Summer
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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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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...
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- Reducing waste
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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...
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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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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
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- Summer
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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 ...
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- Summer
- Sustainable
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