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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Sour Cream Pastry
This is the simplest pastry to make, it's very forgiving and will bolster your confidence to become the baker you were always meant to be. We use this pastry for pies, gale...
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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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A Quiet Christmas
Every year we write a sustainable Christmas guide, and this year a thoughtful holiday season seems more important than ever. Many of us have come under a lot of stress as w...
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USE IT ALL: PINEAPPLE SKIN SODA
This simple fermented soda is based on the Mexican beverage tepache, a sweet and sour drink with an unexpected hit of heat. Its also a wonderful way to extract flavour from...
- Fermenting
- Reducing waste
- seasonal
- Summer
- Use It All
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Fermented Pineapple Sambal
Fermented fruit sambals and chutneys are a specialty of Southern Asia, they are therefore well suited to the Australian climate where things ferment fast! Make tacos more i...
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- Summer
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USE IT ALL: GREEN POCKETS
These green pockets are the ultimate fast food! They are our version of gozleme and we’ve been making them for years. If it’s the weekend we’ll make the simple yoghurt doug...
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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
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- seasonal
- Sustainable
- Use It All
- Waste
- Winter
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The Power of Pickling
We want to spread our love of pickling, so we've decided to share two of our most loved, slightly more interesting recipes – pickled ginger grapes with a delicious grainy s...
- cooking
- pickles
- preserving
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A LETTER FROM ALEX & JAMES:
We have some big news to announce, this morning we packed up our pickles and moved out of our Marrickville café. We have not made this decision lightly but after an incredi...
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