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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HOW TO: PECTIN STOCK
This one's for the jam makers out there. Instead of buying commercial pectin, make your own from fruit scraps. Citrus peels and pips and apple and quince skins and cores...
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How to: Heat Process
Also called 'water bathing' or 'canning', this process uses heat to stop the growth of bacteria. It lengthens the shelf life and also ensures the jars or bottles are sealed...
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How to: Sterilise Jars
Sterilising your jars is essential to give your preserved goods a long shelf life and prevent any nasty contaminants from spoiling all your hard work. Follow these easy st...
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How to: Test for Setting Point
The setting point is when the right levels of pectin, acid, heat and sugar have come together in your jam or marmalade. There are many ways to test for the setting point bu...
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How to: Make a Starter
A sourdough starter is made from just flour, water and time. By fermenting your wheat flour, the phylic acid is broken down and as your starter ferments it productes wild ...
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How to: Soak and ferment grains
Soaking and fermenting your grains improves their nutritional benefits. All grains contain phytic acid (an anti nutrient) that can block the body’s absorption of minerals. ...
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Waste Hack: Brown Banana Jam
Brown bananas are not so tempting to eat, but they are so good for cooking! Before you make another bloody banana bread or a yet another banana smoothie - have a look at ou...
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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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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...
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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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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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- Summer
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