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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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
- Recipe
- seasonal
- Winter
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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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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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Mulled Pears and Waste Hack Pear Core Syrup
Add a little indulgence to your everyday meals with these warmly spiced Mulled Pears, bottled in rich red wine. They'll be perfect on your cheeseboard or thinly sliced thro...
- Autumn
- cooking
- preserving
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- seasonal
- Winter
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Beetroot & Ginger Relish, and more!
It's beetroot and ginger season, so now is the perfect time to make this bitey winter relish - you'll see why it's a Cornersmith staple! Serve with falafel, grilled lamb, a...
- preserving
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- seasonal
- Winter
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Pumpkin Waste Hacks: from Marmalade to Mole
As we keep saying, there’s so much flavour in the skin, seeds and stems. So, there’s no reason these parts should end up in the bin. Here’s two very delicious waste hack re...
- Autumn
- cooking
- preserving
- Recipe
- seasonal
- Sustainable
- Use It All
- Waste
- Winter
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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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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...
- cooking
- preserving
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- Winter
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Preserved Lemons
Preserved lemons form the basis of some of the world's best dishes and every home cook should know how to make them! In winter there is plenty of citrus around and this is ...
- Citrus
- preserving
- Recipe
- Reducing waste
- seasonal
- Winter
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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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Lemon Time
Lemon season is in full swing! In Australia, this staple winter fruit is at its peak from June to August, and that is when we see box after box of citrus, and particularly...
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- community
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- Winter
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Blood Orange Tarte Tartin & Blood Orange Caramel

Pickled Cumquats

Indian Style Lemon Pickle

Mulled Pears and Waste Hack Pear Core Syrup

Beetroot & Ginger Relish, and more!

Pumpkin Waste Hacks: from Marmalade to Mole

Making Marmalade and Ways to Use It

Chai Spiced Breakfast Prunes

Preserved Lemons

Lemon and Thyme Marmalade

Lemon Time