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...
- cooking
- preserving
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- seasonal
- Summer
- Sweet Preserving
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Making Marmalade and Ways to Use It
Making marmalade isn’t hard and this small-scale recipe uses up the last few bits of citrus in the fruit bowl. You can easily store it in the fridge for a few months or dou...
- Citrus
- preserving
- Recipe
- Sweet Preserving
- Winter
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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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Strawberry Waste Hacks
Strawberries are really cheap right now. Due to COVID, strawberry farmers in Queensland are being forced to abandon their crops, as demand has drastically decreased withou...
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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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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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Fig & Earl Grey Breakfast Jam
This jam is perfect for buttery toast and croissants, but also works well with cheddar or cured meats.
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Mulberry Compote
Spring is mulberry season! If you have mulberries hanging over your back fence or on your walk home, why not take the kids and get picking! We use this mulberry compote in ...
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Lemon and Thyme Marmalade
It's lemon thyme! Lemons combine well with the flavours from woody herbs. We make this with thyme but you could also try it with bay or rosemary. Throw in a teaspoon of bl...
- Citrus
- preserving
- Recipe
- seasonal
- Sweet Preserving
- Winter
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Preserving Chillies: Chilli Jam, Drying Chillies at Home and Chilli Top Vinegar

Making Marmalade and Ways to Use It

MANDARIN AND STAR ANISE JAM

Strawberry Waste Hacks

Rhubarb, Strawberry and Apple Jam

Quince Jam

Peach and Lime Jam

Fig & Earl Grey Breakfast Jam

Mulberry Compote

Lemon and Thyme Marmalade